I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father. — David Platt Copy Share Image
I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Even when the light at the end does seem faint. You are the creator with the canvas and the paint. It's never… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret, — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Let us paint depth, joy, and happiness onto the canvas of our lives, for it is a vital and gratifying endeavor. (Painting… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I had to stop selling stick-figure portraits of women at the beach, after too many customers complained I was making them look… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.” — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
Every day I'm in my studio - it's wooden and purpose-built at the end of our garden. It's filthy and has got… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses -… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
“See, if you paint wrong because that’s the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
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