The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
When someone wants to freshen up their home a bit, and they don't want to spend a ton of money on construction,… — Bobby Berk Copy Share Image
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“mother's love of books and spent a great deal of time outdoors, where she grew up independent and free spirited. Nature became… — Sandra McLeod Humphrey Copy Share Image
So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which… — Tony Kaye Copy Share Image
My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
“There were several paintings to admire, one of them very fine indeed. Many were urban, industrial landscapes. Paul was generous with his… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“Watching Dad figure things out was like watching an artist paint a picture. He used to say an investigation was a lot… — James R. Benn Copy Share Image
“In response to a plea in early 1941 from his colleague and friend, the writer Marietta Shaginyan, who was newly infatuated with… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I've lived a long time, and a lot of things shut down. Painting is one of them. It never occurred to me… — Michael Chow Copy Share Image
“... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To know in order to do, that was my idea. To be in a position to translate the customs, the ideas, the… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
“I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like… — Veta Louise Simmons Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too.… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Seven, ten, fifteen, eighteen years old and still there is nothing finer than a blank sheet of paper, the white promise that… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
“Ashton Adams, the real Ashton Adams, had had a wonderful week. He had attended four poetry readings and two séances, as well… — Lev A.C. Rosen Copy Share Image
My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
I liked painting, very early on, even more than drawing. I used poster paint on posterboard. I would copy images that I… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“When people look at my work, they often say, “Your picture is so good. I can’t even draw a straight line.” I… — Alice Provensen Copy Share Image
Why try to explain away a portrait of You painted by the insecurities of another? You didn't pick the brushes, the colors,… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Lily Tomlin, Judi Dench, Carol Burnett, Linda Emond, Meryl Streep, Janet Mctyre. I saw all these women on stage, and I experienced… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I want my paintings to give the viewer a true sense of reality - that includes but is not limited to depth,… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
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