If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all. — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“He’s the foreground of the painting that is your life together. You’re the background. You like it that way.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at. — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships. — Mary Morrissey Copy Share Image
Painter baby you could be the muse. I'm the reporter baby you could be the news. — Miguel Jontel Copy Share Image
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up. — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
Wash your face at the end of the night! There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint...… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“..the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and… — Arnold Weinstein Copy Share Image
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed. — Erro Copy Share Image
She paints a pretty picture, but this story has a twist, her paint brush is a razor and her canvas is her… — Levita Charin Copy Share Image
I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
“I keep scraping the canvas And painting him over again But he keeps slipping away” — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings? — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
“Painting imparts new wings And my mind soars high; Imagination glitters the alleys of my mind And I fly, fly, fly...” — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
I want to leave behind paintings and sculptures that can inspire someone. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics. — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
“From the sun to the moon From the clouds to the stars You are living in a painting under the skies” — J.WOLF Copy Share Image
