When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done.… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings. — David Luiz Copy Share Image
The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors… — Nolan Gerard Funk Copy Share Image
About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but… — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
“Practice alternating your focus between the big picture and small detail by allowing your eyes to focus broadly, then narrowing in on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films,… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
I think that the sheer fact that music can raise certain questions or put topics on the agenda has in itself already… — G.W. Sok Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci had such a playful curiosity. If you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“The Difference Between a good artist And a great one Is: The novice Will often lay down his tool Or brush Then… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In a portrait, there is a place for every one's point of view..And the portrait may not be exactly what the point… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can… — Laura Harris Copy Share Image
Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was,… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must… — Charles Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
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