It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how… — John Green Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will… — Tamara de Lempicka Copy Share Image
“From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
“He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back,… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need… — Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Copy Share Image
I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint.… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
“Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make… — Glenn O'Brien Copy Share Image
I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever… — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
My father was also a painter - actually, a traditional Chinese painter. His personality is pretty timid and cautious. Like him, I… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
“You have to work with the paint and work with whatever the day brings you. If it's a wee bit dreary out,… — Kieran Kramer Copy Share Image
I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
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