When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings.… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't get the value of the art or the painting you buy. The value you get from it is on… — Lemar Copy Share Image
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
“He tugged on the hood, and I savored the shadows and menace and wings. Death on swift wings . That's what I'd… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There was an exchange between me and Andy Warhol. We met, we liked each other, we appreciated each other. He would come… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time.… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I always bought pictures, I only started to buy oil paintings when I started to make serious amounts of money because they… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered… — Kimberly Novosel Copy Share Image
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to have schools for painting; there are only painters. Schools have no use except for discerning the analytic… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
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