Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check.… — Keariene Muizz Copy Share Image
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
“I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with… — David Salle Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“He is all my art to me now," said the painter gravely. "I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
In 1984, I was contacted by Michael Taylor, who had won a commission from a sponsor and decided he would like to… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
I have finally completed painting our bedroom! So many walls, so much ceiling! Now eating pizza and watching 'The Big Lebowski'. Delightful. — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it… — Richard Pousette-Dart Copy Share Image
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I am constantly in a need to create irrespective of the medium. When I started out, I did sketch and I continue… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my… — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting… — John Constable Copy Share Image
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