Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough,… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“In Mexico City they somehow wandered into an exhibition of paintings by the beautiful Spanish exile Remedios Varo: in the central painting… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ?… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium.… — Eli Wallach Copy Share Image
My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so –… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient… — William Kurelek Copy Share Image
Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own… — John Cage Copy Share Image
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“Artists,‚Äù he said, ‚Äúare people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Alas, I had no power, at that time, to combat the flat refusal of many cover departments to put people of color… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I’ve had so many influences and sources of inspiration as an illustrator that it is impossible to name just one. I loved… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“[Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008] helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Painted Things I love my work and take pains with it. But today I find the slow pace of composition discouraging. The… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“One of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous creations is his painting of The Last Supper. It is said that while Leonardo da… — Fred Andrea Copy Share Image
“The painting of your home is something that is very important. This is because it is something that people can see. It… — Brian Erik Jamison Copy Share Image
If a song is cooking in the studio, that's great, but if I can imagine doing it on stage, that's the next… — Chrysta Bell Copy Share Image
Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished,… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
![“My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and more specifically by computer screen, like jpegs, but an RGB simulation of fluorescent will never fully accurately depict some colors. For example, our eyes are a…” quote by Ryan McGinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b0/ryan-mcginness-68013_artist_my-reason-for-making-my-own-paint-is-to_2618362.jpg)
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