Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
“I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. 'Show me what it looked… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
“Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking- glass, that night when he got back to his room.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working… — Billy Williams Copy Share Image
Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my… — Rita Ackermann Copy Share Image
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to have schools for painting; there are only painters. Schools have no use except for discerning the analytic… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
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