A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in the art… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
Once you know the reason why - you've defined your white space of canvas on which you can paint and create a… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight… — Osho Copy Share Image
Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
“The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would… — Hilma af Klint Copy Share Image
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Life is a canvas, you are the brush, your future is the paint, and education is the skill to painting a masterpiece… — R Morrison Copy Share Image
If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this… — Paul Theroux 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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