I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to have schools for painting; there are only painters. Schools have no use except for discerning the analytic… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman,… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you've ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
She looked up at the sky, now tinged with orange. "Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music..." She stopped… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work… — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he… — Dore Schary Copy Share Image
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings.… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't get the value of the art or the painting you buy. The value you get from it is on… — Lemar Copy Share Image
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
![“My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.” quote by Alfred Stieglitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/alfred-stieglitz-13773_aim_my-aim-is-increasingly-to-make-my-photog_822023.jpg)
![“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a08/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-think-at-the-l-a-county-museum-of-art_1563358.jpg)
![“[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.” quote by Michael Craig-Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c8/michael-craig-martin-9157_artist_i-don-t-want-people-to-see-it-paintings_421873.jpg)
![“Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].” quote by Dawoud Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4c/dawoud-bey-52092_able_improvisational-things-about-picture-mak_2966000.jpg)
![“My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.” quote by Alec Monopoly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/842/alec-monopoly-41082_art_my-mom-is-a-painter-so-i-ve-been-doing-d_1928776.jpg)
