“I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic… — Juan Gris Copy Share Image
“Art is too important a term to be used just for painters. And sculptors. And playwrights. And actors. And architects of a… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Listen, then, Jane Eyre, to your sentence: tomorrow, place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture, faithfully, without… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“What were you doing? This lot said you were over there," he growled, pointing to the section of the library he'd just… — Caroline Peckham Copy Share Image
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Weirdly, an image of Adrian’s Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“I make out a schoolbus...glowing orange, green, magenta, lavender, chlorine blue, every fluorescent pastel imaginable in thousands of designs, both large and… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the… — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings,… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then,… — Ala Bashir Copy Share Image
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Much-Afraid, don't ever allow yourself to begin trying to picture what it will be like. Believe me, when you get to the… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't understand why a Mark Rothko painting - as much as I love Mark Rothko - has to cost $73 million.… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Seeing how prominently Edmond had displayed the masterpiece, Langdon wondered if perhaps the painting itself might hold some clue as to what… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a rough sketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior any way one can,… — john gardner Copy Share Image
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I held out the painting of the cat and the snake. “It’s a cat and a snake,” Thoth said. Thank you, god… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really.… — Daron Malakian Copy Share Image
The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“Now where's this artist?" His eyes darted around the room, landed on Gennie and clung. She thought she saw surprise, quickly veiled,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go… — David Salle Copy Share Image
