Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else. — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
“It's dark times like these that present us the canvas where we paint our own greatness.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls... — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. the sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion. — Euan Uglow Copy Share Image
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
You can just start shooting things and see how it goes. But time is still money, so you have to know when… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I… — Barry Blitt Copy Share Image
