Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo Copy Share Image
One day I was watching some pundits screaming at each other on a news show. It suddenly reminded me of this painting… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a… — Toni Onley Copy Share Image
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition,… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“I had this dream that my life was a rolling canvas. Everyday it rolled off the sheet, bleached white, into the beach… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
“God Is The Artist Of Your Landscape Will things always work out in the way you hope and want? Of course not!… — Cheryl Zelenka Copy Share Image
“My descendants will manage without my portrait' she smiled. Anyway they'll have plenty of photographs of me. To this our famous conductor… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's… — Abbey Lee Kershaw Copy Share Image
If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.” — Liz Rideal Copy Share Image
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Comparing Ferran with Heston or Grant makes no more sense than comparing three painters because they buy the same brand of brushes.… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y.… — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the… — Allison Mackie Copy Share Image
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of… — John Berger Copy Share Image
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
When someone wants to freshen up their home a bit, and they don't want to spend a ton of money on construction,… — Bobby Berk Copy Share Image
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
