I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“was no stain left upon it. It was bright, and glistened. As it had killed the painter, so it would kill the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“Dipping my bare brush into your garish gold eyes, I draw your dreams close. They dance divinely within, sparking silhouettes alight. (Harboured… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“Unveil the shade of your soul through the paint brush of your life. Let the colors run true, let the canvas be… — Shady Grace Copy Share Image
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“And although it was in a hospital that she lay and I sat next to her—it is always that eternal poetry of… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“What I remember most clearly is how it felt. I’d just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I often walked… — David Macaulay Copy Share Image
Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's… — Milford Zornes Copy Share Image
The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look.… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings.… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds,… — Arundhati Roy; God of Small Things Copy Share Image
A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not… — Daniel B. Shapiro Copy Share Image
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. — Ron White Copy Share Image
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