I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by… — Sarah Ganz Blyth Copy Share Image
In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had… — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
“This time when she picked up her paints, she didn’t think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite… — William Klein Copy Share Image
What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate of all mediums - it's a larger canvas for us as artists - but we have to keep in… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry,… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t… — Mirka Mora Copy Share Image
When my brother and I were small, somebody pointed out that we looked like something out of 'The Dark Crystal.' I think… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
The gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow… — Emma Green Tregaro Copy Share Image
The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Life's a canvas you're an artist, Paint a picture of a garden then go and marvel at the harvest you created from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and… — Ron Parker Copy Share Image
Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka'… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
“As with any artist,I see my first piece of blank writing paper as the canvas on which I will create my next… — Ernest Grant Copy Share Image
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
“Three erotic paintings by Isa - $ 20K; chasing said artist in Benz SLS Coupe - $ 195K; the look on her… — Ella Dominguez Copy Share Image
Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for… — Herwarth Walden Copy Share Image
Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo Copy Share Image
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
