Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“So, what do you photograph?” I swallow my wine. “What?” “You know – city scapes, nature, portraits, candid shots...” Boobs. I photograph… — Iris Blaire Copy Share Image
People's live are expressed in little details…The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
“ That's when I got it. The rough canvas. God paints our bodies over that, over our heart and soul. It's the… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look… — Dave Navarro Copy Share Image
Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“And speaking of passion," his breath floated over my lips, "I've found one that has nothing to do with paints and canvas."… — Tess Oliver Copy Share Image
I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Sometimes I seem to be two people. One who does not paint and one who does. The one who does not paint… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The idea of taking a brand that already exists and making a really poor-looking version of it, with acrylic or puffy paint,… — Hunx Copy Share Image
Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
“Fancy clipped a scrap of newsprint to her canvas and wrote, I don't have friends. Ilan's hand covered hers briefly as he… — Dia Reeves Copy Share Image
Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation,… — Dichen Lachman Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings,… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything… — Alicia Alonso Copy Share Image
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I found a new life in painting, maybe because I think I've found myself. I'm so much more comfortable with myself now… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
