You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time.… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
I always bought pictures, I only started to buy oil paintings when I started to make serious amounts of money because they… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered… — Kimberly Novosel Copy Share Image
“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr Copy Share Image
But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It's a completely different way of working when you have your own place for recording. It's like if you were a painter,… — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
I sort of feel that the role of a portrait in society is to represent the sitters, we see paintings of Shakespeare… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
“There is so much information and decoration that this, the world’s largest fresco painting at about twelve thousand square feet, seems overstuffed… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Keith Haring wrote " You see that's why I work like a dog and I worked like a dog all my life.… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“And it was as if I’d known that only here would those paints come into their own, and help me. That they… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States. — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make… — Nita Engle Copy Share Image
I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Wash your face at the end of the night! There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth,… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
