“We sat together in three leather chairs next to a painting of nineteenth-century statesman Henry Clay and turned the conversation to Scouting… — Alvin Townley Copy Share Image
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
“I thought about taking a course in painting. I was good at drawing in school, you remember?” “You never went to school.”… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
“In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
“What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“You finally show your professional artist friend the self-portrait you painted. At this stage of your development, what you need is a… — Douglas Stone Copy Share Image
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
“I have zero tolerance for the use of AI in any aspect of human creative endeavor. We can make a separate space… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way.… — Bob Lilly Copy Share Image
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas,… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design… — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats.… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say,… — John Glover Copy Share Image
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close,… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
