“I think an artist might feel the same way when they place a brush to a canvas.” She looked down at the… — Catherine Bybee Copy Share Image
I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
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
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“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
Beautiful, Gorgeous, I ain't tryna buy your time, I can't afford it. What I'm tryna do is paint a pretty portrait. Me… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
“Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“You painted all those characters into the paintings all over the school, and every one of them is a portrait of you,… — G. Norman Lippert Copy Share Image
“I remember that a couple, both tall and thin, turned away from a painting and peered over as if I might be… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty… — Nigel Tomm 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
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
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
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
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
If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the… — Arshile Gorky 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
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
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
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
I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing. — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
They say life is like art and the world is your canvas, whether your picture be good or bad it will always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is your bravery test. You worked so hard and then a crazy-haired guy tells you to throw in a big ol'… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent… — John Currin Copy Share Image
A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image