“Giacometti said something that I really liked: you never finish a painting, you abandon it. His paintings are not finished; their potential… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting,… — Mike D Copy Share Image
When you step inside a set and transform into a character, it's your first brush with that role. It doesn't matter who… — Aditi Rao Hydari Copy Share Image
“I called, my voice false-sounding and hoarse, slipping the painting into an extra pillowcase and hiding it under the bed before hurrying… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“I drew a self-portrait of myself, drawn with my eyes closed from a memory someone else may or may not have had… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland - I dreamed the houses there were encased in this… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the… — Alexandra Johnson Copy Share Image
Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you… — Clementine Hunter Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory,… — Siegfried Woldhek Copy Share Image
You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It’s an interpretation and a recreation… — Elisa Lorello Copy Share Image
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic:… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
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