It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to… — Keith Shackleton Copy Share Image
It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“The moon is the lamp he paints by; His canvas the window pane; His brush is a frozen snowflake; Jack Frost the… — C. C. Long Copy Share Image
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were… — Larry Rivers Copy Share Image
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows,… — Mary Leakey Copy Share Image
“The tan carpet was stiff and black with stripes of dried blood, spattered like a Jackson Pollock canvas. The walls were streaked… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more,… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Vasari has been a trusted friend on my painting journey for the last 12 years. Vasari is hands down the best oil… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment...… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years… I have a feeling. You… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
Whenever I go on holiday, I like to time travel and imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago. I… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. — Balthus Copy Share Image
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
![“[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's recognized he's gone through R'lyeh, the Sunken City of R'lyeh, and then Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial, calls his band of worshippers home to recognize him as…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/464/paul-laffoley-7077_anti-christ_h-p-lovecraft-is-thrust-into-some-kind-o_1509500.jpg)
