It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a… — Toni Onley Copy Share Image
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo Copy Share Image
One day I was watching some pundits screaming at each other on a news show. It suddenly reminded me of this painting… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
“Some day you will be able to step back and see the entire work of art. In that moment you will understand… — Alex Alexander Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books,… — Tony Kaye Copy Share Image
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Discourse combines signs which have referents, of course, but these referents can be and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y.… — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the… — Allison Mackie Copy Share Image
“Comparing Ferran with Heston or Grant makes no more sense than comparing three painters because they buy the same brand of brushes.… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.” — Liz Rideal Copy Share Image
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition,… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's… — Abbey Lee Kershaw Copy Share Image
I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
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