I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States. — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make… — Nita Engle Copy Share Image
Dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat,… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a… — Brett Dalton Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Wash your face at the end of the night! There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth,… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“So you want to know all about me, Who I am What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“An ocean of ink in a single drop, Trembling at the tip of my brush. Poised above stark white paper, A universe… — Laozi Copy Share Image
All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and… — Patricia Zipprodt Copy Share Image
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I am recording on my own, it's like an oil painting: I can put that on top of that and build… — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
“We all need a project. Whether we're 12 or 84, we need something to work on. My grandfather had his paintings. They… — Skylar Cross Copy Share Image
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs,… — Adrian Belew Copy Share Image
Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
