I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My paintings used to be so realistic and I found it a little bit boring, especially now that I'm in New York.… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
“King of the Ruskin was my show last year, last May, in New College Long Room. I filled that old room with… — Paul Haworth Copy Share Image
Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no… — Simon Kapwepwe Copy Share Image
“When I think of it as happening to somebody else, it seems that the idea of me soaked to the skin, surrounded… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“When I golf, I use just enough strokes to create a masterpiece, like I'm a painter. The score I post up would… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
“Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a… — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will… — Charles Demuth Copy Share Image
Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings...… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop… — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction,… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
