When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all… — Allan Nevins Copy Share Image
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
I sent an ex of mine an enormous oil painting of me as a housewarming gift. It was one of the most… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“(All those paintings of women, in art galleries, surprised at private moments. Nymph Sleeping. Susanna and the Elders. Woman bathing, one foot… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We have to pay attention to one another, regardless of how someone may look or act, look again. Looking at people is… — Leah Chase Copy Share Image
“Everything's a painting, anyway," Fawn said. "That's what I think. We live inside a giant painting, only we can't see who's holding… — Rose Christo Copy Share Image
She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. It's always at the back of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a wall instead… — David Allee Copy Share Image
There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
“...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye. — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Paint wet like it's aroused. So high I can kiss the clouds. I roll up in sour flowers and smoke till I'm… — Killa Kyleon Copy Share Image
I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings,… — Anthony Caro Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but… — Amrita Sher-Gil Copy Share Image
“You've influenced the world not because you wanted to hug it and cuddle it and call it sweet thing, but because one… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream… — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image
Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
