Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“The artist is now giving a first coat of paint to that tautly stretched canvas which the scientist has been so busy… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware,… — M. F. Husain Copy Share Image
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is… — Ivan Eyre Copy Share Image
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The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be able to use my painting ideas as decoration on pottery, but my painting did not… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
“The love of the painter standing alone and staring, staring at the great coloured surface he is making. Standing with him in… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“I have always loved art and am an aspiring painter, and in early years when I was struggling to find a style,… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
“from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago, when I had been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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