Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach. — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall … Anyone who can sit on a stone in… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just… — Jade Puget Copy Share Image
Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“I remembered that Johnson had declared portrait painting to be an improper employment for a woman. “Public practice of any art and… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence?… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas,… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
“I thought about taking a course in painting. I was good at drawing in school, you remember?” “You never went to school.”… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
“And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never… — Augustus John Copy Share Image
If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is… — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at… — Grimes Copy Share Image
