My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music… — Nas Copy Share Image
“Surely a woman, not just a painter, needs a place where she can nurture her individuality, where she can become. Pascal” — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
“What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Echo continued to tap her finger to her chin and created more dots on her face while she stared at the canvas.… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
People should quit their jobs, move to Oklahoma, move in with 34 people, pay $100 a month in rent and start a… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Anyone can have original style,” he countered. “And yet no one truly does. We’re influenced by those who came before us, beginning… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have… — Balthus Copy Share Image
I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“life had taught her that the men who took least care of their appearance - as with this painter - always seemed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but… — Katy Grannan Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for… — John Currin Copy Share Image
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
“according to my figures I've only had 2500 pieces of ass but I've watched 12500 horse races, and if I have any… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image