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 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
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
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I remember that a couple, both tall and thin, turned away from a painting and peered over as if I might be… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“You painted all those characters into the paintings all over the school, and every one of them is a portrait of you,… — G. Norman Lippert Copy Share Image
I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene… — Werner Herzog 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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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