Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language.… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
“A timeless classical love story our romance shall be… I'll paint it on vintage canvas cause your love transcends the realms defeats… — Claudia Pavel Copy Share Image
Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I had my first exhibition in September, 2012. This was when I first introduced the public to my style of the incorporation… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship,… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
There are the guys that wear the white hats and they're painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and… — Patrick Reed Copy Share Image
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Discourse combines signs which have referents, of course, but these referents can be and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
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