I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless.… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go?… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way:… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Well painting is certainly my main thing. I will keep doing that for the rest of my life, but if I become… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“The masters must be copied over and over again," Degas said, "and it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that… — Degas Copy Share Image
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“..the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and… — Arnold Weinstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint...… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting.… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
“There's a hurried intensity in the strokes--you can see where he scratched into the wet paint with the end of the brush.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Almost everything about the universe is astounding. I think the most amazing thing is how gifted we are - we are only… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
“There’s something familiar about the curve of her lower lip. The weight cradled by a soft, slender chin. The bow of her… — A.D. Evans Copy Share Image
I enjoy painting. It's an incredible release of tension, and I feel very excited doing it. I squeeze out some wonderful red… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“Peter used to say, "The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face." You're doomed to being you. This,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“He simply painted the portrait of some aristocratic Mesalina, and was tactful enough to let Cupid hold the mirror in which she… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating.… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share Image
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
