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
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
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
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves,… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a great and glorious nation. Favourite amongst his subjects was the court… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
“The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time.… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is… — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image
“On September 2, 2011, the bronze statue for the dial-painters was unveiled by the governor in Ottawa, Illinois. It is a statue… — Kate Moore 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
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'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
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
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
“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
Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every… — Twyla Tharp 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
I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are,… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style.… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting,… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
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