I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and… — Shirley Eaton Copy Share Image
I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I really enjoy house painting - especially the trim work. People think I'm crazy, but it's more fun than using the roller… — James Doohan Copy Share Image
In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in… — Graham Sutherland Copy Share Image
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
“Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
Even though the paint runs, rainy night time missions remain some of the best in memory. A lot of the time, it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I see what sound engineers do as like painting. A good artist could paint that table so that it looks nothing like… — Glyn Johns Copy Share Image
My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“stranger riding one of those paints and coming back over the same trail, neither of the men looking as though there’d been… — Willard Wyman Copy Share Image
People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place. — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Tommy showed me around, starting with the photos on the walls, many of which were of himself, including a few grand, framed… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking… — Mickalene Thomas Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that… — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious,… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
