If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
“Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.” — Danny Gregory Copy Share Image
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“I lost track of time when I was in the studio painting. I will get lost in the canvas. It was a… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it… — Sarah Jeffery Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“Their poses are all different but the face is the same. Painted from memory in scene after scene is the fresh-faced beauty.… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There… — R. B. Kitaj Copy Share Image
I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures… — Rankin Copy Share Image
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose... — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le… — Simon winchester Copy Share Image
A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there.… — Bobby Berk Copy Share Image
They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things. — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted… — Caravaggio Copy Share Image
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image