What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It… — Alan Licht Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I think the films and the paintings erase each other. The paintings are extremely slow and constantly going on in the studio… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
I started painting incidentally, but it is just another form of expression. No one can stop me from what I do. When… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
“As Giotto’s fame grew, the pope sent a representative to Tuscany to learn more about the artist and his work. When asked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is… — James Nares Copy Share Image
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
“To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand… — John Hench Copy Share Image
“I almost can't believe you won first place, because the painting deserves it so much, and people who deserve to win hardly… — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
I think the worst lie I ever told was, because my last name is Goth, I used to tell kids at school… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it,… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy,… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Keep moving Never shy off obstacle on the way of your endeavour. Keep moving is the virtue of progress.Never lament setback of… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware,… — M. F. Husain Copy Share Image
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is… — Ivan Eyre Copy Share Image
“The artist is now giving a first coat of paint to that tautly stretched canvas which the scientist has been so busy… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
