Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
We had lead emitted in gasoline and in paint, painting generations of housing for an entire century, practically, before it was regulated.… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“You think that I am naive, but it is you who are naive. You have no idea what is happening inside of… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“It had never been a secret that I'd idealized my father, that I would've done anything to please him--to be the apple… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I would say an eyebrow pencil - a brush and pencil, I cannot leave home without that. Definitely concealer, just because of… — Rachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I've never considered soundtracks for what I write. Nor have I considered computer drawing or painting. As a painter, I'm still trying… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. I came out… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The large bedroom was crammed to overflowing with family relics, and examples of the various arts in which Lady Emily had brilliantly… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost.… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then… — Victor Skrebneski Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It isn't that it's too soon, you're on the back of my bike, it ain't too soon. You can buy sheets. You… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward… — Henry Purcell Copy Share Image
“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
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