The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you… — Common Copy Share Image
I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
“Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I… — John Currin Copy Share Image
I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
When I started working at Pictures On Walls, I'd been hanging out with Banksy for a few years travelling around the world… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I was always interested in the ocean and also in art. I had to figure out how to put the two together,… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan,… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image