I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Tommy showed me around, starting with the photos on the walls, many of which were of himself, including a few grand, framed… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
“stranger riding one of those paints and coming back over the same trail, neither of the men looking as though there’d been… — Willard Wyman Copy Share Image
People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place. — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I suppose I got more praise for being able to draw things and paint things than I… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
No one ever gets to see Foley artists at work, and they're so strange. They see the world differently: things as things… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting… — John Musker Copy Share Image
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
“What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and -- undercutting the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations. — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
There are the guys that wear the white hats and they're painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and… — Patrick Reed Copy Share Image
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
![“Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] into an abstract proposition that is completely removed from the starting point.” quote by Nigel Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b8/nigel-cooke-39620_abstract_small-thoughts-grow-into-a-picture-it-ma_1130734.jpg)
![“I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].” quote by Don Hertzfeldt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/134/don-hertzfeldt-16260_angle_i-ve-never-felt-really-creative-or-intui_2968544.jpg)
