I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
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The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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“Overgrown, crumbling, tilted, full of cracks, returning to the soil. Paint fell from boards, plaster from walls. Unsupervised, matter was collapsing under… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that.… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I… — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't mean to give performance art a bad name or anything; I think there are people that are legit. I think… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.'… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where… — Neville Brody Copy Share Image
Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies… — Thomas Gainsborough Copy Share Image
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary… — Mary Carroll Nelson Copy Share Image
My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the… — Joseph Pisani Copy Share Image
Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
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“Microserfs (1995) p28 'He's thinking of quitting [Microsoft] to be a pixelation broker, going around to museums to digitize their paintings” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
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