Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. — Abner Leslie Copy Share Image
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime. — Ted Godwin Copy Share Image
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books? — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Waiting to create sensual art with your fingers as brushstrokes and my body your blank canvas.” — Christina Strigas Copy Share Image
There are painters that can change the sun into a yellow blot, but there are others, that due to their talent and… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling… — Budd Hopkins Copy Share Image
Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay… — Jerome Robbins Copy Share Image
Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you… — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves,… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Have you ever stared at a painting so long that the colors blur and you can’t tell what you’re looking at anymore?… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think humor really is the most effective way for me personally to express myself. When I see an incredible formalist painting,… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
