You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work… — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he… — Dore Schary Copy Share Image
Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings.… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“I’d stumbled upon the inner sanctuary of a woman who loved the world. Loved the faces of people she saw. Loved the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of… — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
“In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't get the value of the art or the painting you buy. The value you get from it is on… — Lemar Copy Share Image
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time.… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I always bought pictures, I only started to buy oil paintings when I started to make serious amounts of money because they… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered… — Kimberly Novosel Copy Share Image
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
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