DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When I golf, I use just enough strokes to create a masterpiece, like I'm a painter. The score I post up would… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
“Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a… — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
“The actor can learn from the painter about the emotive power of facial expressions. The painter from the designer, about the potential… — Frank Chimero Copy Share Image
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will… — Charles Demuth Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings...… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop… — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction,… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which… — Giorgio Morandi Copy Share Image
This is about relationships, about the placement of potent colors and the canvas sparkling through. I want the eye to dance across… — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
“Paint for Mac Pro is the best Mac version of paint program used to edit image, filters and paint on Mac. A… — effectmatrix.com Copy Share Image
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
My art is representational by choice…if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
During the war, women without nylons drew lines up the backs of their legs to give the illusion of silk stockings. Painting… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
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