A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“They’re all daubers, today’s painters; they’ve completely lost touch with the classical tradition, the subtle, noble craft of the old masters. They… — Stefan Hertmans Copy Share Image
“I had painted a lot of landscapes, had stood before many while they burned their remote beauty into my skin, but had… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Do you know the anecdote about Rubens? He was serving Holland as Ambassador to Spain and used to spend the afternoon in… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“I've seen only painters and fishermen and I think they're both the same kind of men who made a different choice one… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they… — Jack Klugman Copy Share Image
Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working… — Billy Williams Copy Share Image
Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my… — Rita Ackermann Copy Share Image
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“And it was as if I’d known that only here would those paints come into their own, and help me. That they… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
