I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was… — Monica Drake Copy Share Image
Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It would be nice if our lives were a canvas and all our decisions were based by painting by the numbers. You… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“I asked Geertrui the other day what she thought love is-real love, true love. She said that for her real love is… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I've been painting and drawing fish since I was very young. My mom found old pictures I did when I was around… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
You know how to paint a room real fast? Just put paint rollers on your feet and then somehow figure out how… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything,… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“What the devil is that?” Jack asked. Frannie eased around to see what Jack was staring at. Greystone’s back bore a painting… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart… — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
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