I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I paint on and off, not very regularly. But since I was in school, I had an inclination for it. — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night". — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting. — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye.… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Don't you love it when people in school are like, “I'm a bad test taker”? You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it… — Miroslav Tichy Copy Share Image
You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that… — Billy Magnussen Copy Share Image
The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
