I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it. — Stephen Wright Copy Share Image
I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after… — George Tooker Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then,… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
Right," I scoffed, "Alpha Yam Ergo." Adrian nodded solemnly. "A very old and prestigious society." "I've never heard of them," said the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“The painting was so vibrant and alive with summertime that it seemed to fill the entire room with light. It depicted a… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
No hidden talents, but I have a lot of hobbies. Acrylic painting - I got a whole set, and I light candles… — Christen Press Copy Share Image
“HIERONIMO. See, who knock there. PEDRO. It is a painter, sir. HIERONIMO. Bid him come in, and paint some comfort. For surely… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
“On his chiseled actor’s face, Naberius’ expression of confusion looked like it had come off of a classical painting: Portrait of a… — Will Wight Copy Share Image
Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line,… — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip,… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art… — Cher Copy Share Image
“Mist swirled and spun, like monochrome paints running together on a canvas. Light died in the west, and night came of age.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well… — Isaac Slade Copy Share Image
