Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to… — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see,… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them.… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
“Like James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Woolf ’s first novel is a self-conscious meditation on… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
“What I have done is to draw and redraw my portrait in front of the backdrop of Japan. I have exemplified what… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
My painting and writing has always been parallel. That's why probably where my colleagues have done 300 films, I have done only… — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more!… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
What's fun to me is that we can make movies but we are no longer restricted by this two-hour timeframe. It gives… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments. — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by… — Milena Canonero Copy Share Image
Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity… — Chai Lu Copy Share Image
Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
“With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I am who I am, this perpetual painting with wet ink that refuses to dry. I refuse to boxed and labeled,categorized conformity.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach. — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Blacktivitiy" Bespattered with brilliant stars shining bright And suspended over the splendid, sable sea. Though all His works are wondrous beauties, God’s… — D.B. Mays Copy Share Image
There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our… — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
