Painting with a razor on the canvas of my skin. The scars on the outside are nothing to those within. So color… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for… — L. S. Lowry Copy Share Image
Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Life is just like painting. Draw the lines with hope. Erase The Errors With tolerance. Dip the brush with lots of patience.… — Robert Tew Copy Share Image
When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don't just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
There was an exchange between me and Andy Warhol. We met, we liked each other, we appreciated each other. He would come… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
“Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“They’re all daubers, today’s painters; they’ve completely lost touch with the classical tradition, the subtle, noble craft of the old masters. They… — Stefan Hertmans Copy Share Image
If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb,… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces. — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards… — William Scott Copy Share Image
You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting… — Richard Artschwager Copy Share Image
I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I think traditional media is vitally important, I think there are a lot of benefits to working in traditional media, and I… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never… — Augustus John Copy Share Image
If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
“And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
