Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait. — Jon Witcomb Copy Share Image
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus Copy Share Image
I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you… — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and… — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture,… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“I needed to take her to a concert, or maybe invite her out to go stencil street art in the middle of… — Jarod Kintz 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
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
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
I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment. — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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