Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
“As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest… — George Rodrigue Copy Share Image
I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's… — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death,… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“The fisherman-painter has the best of the bargain as far as the weather goes, for the weather that is too bright for… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
I am of the theory that all of our transcendental connections, anything we're drawn to, be it a person, a song, a… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
“An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic… — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting. — John Updike Copy Share Image
You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all… — John Currin Copy Share Image
All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“With her wild red hair draped around her pallid visage, she could easily be mistaken for a nymph from a Pre-Raphaelite painting.… — Renate Linnenkoper Copy Share Image
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I feel like every piece of art is a mirror of what's going on in the present time, because the artist -… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet… — Jorg Immendorff Copy Share Image
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say,… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
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