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
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
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
“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
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
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
“The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“He tugged on the hood, and I savored the shadows and menace and wings. Death on swift wings . That's what I'd… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days… — Aubrey Beardsley 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
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
“I’d love to try to sell a blank white canvas to an art dealer. And when he asks what it is, I’d… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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 get me wrong, I like to have a good party sometimes. But I really like having my friends over, cooking for… — Daisy Lowe Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
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
