Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
“What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and -- undercutting the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Elinor retreated to the terrace where the night air on her skin felt like a hot bath. She was hurt, it had… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Kolchak nodded, 'Right, because that would make sense." He took off his hat and crumpled it against his hip. 'When I lived… — Jason Henderson Copy Share Image
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations. — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by… — Sarah Ganz Blyth Copy Share Image
In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close,… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats.… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say,… — John Glover Copy Share Image
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design… — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
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