As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
I was given an eight-foot painting on a luminous yellow background as a parting gift when leaving Paris in 2008. I did… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The Landscape becomes reflective, human and thinks itself though me. I make it an object, let it project itself and endure within… — Paul Cézanne Copy Share Image
“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
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Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no… — Simon Kapwepwe Copy Share Image
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
“King of the Ruskin was my show last year, last May, in New College Long Room. I filled that old room with… — Paul Haworth Copy Share Image
My paintings used to be so realistic and I found it a little bit boring, especially now that I'm in New York.… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Everything's a painting, anyway," Fawn said. "That's what I think. We live inside a giant painting, only we can't see who's holding… — Rose Christo Copy Share Image
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to pay attention to one another, regardless of how someone may look or act, look again. Looking at people is… — Leah Chase Copy Share Image
“Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“(All those paintings of women, in art galleries, surprised at private moments. Nymph Sleeping. Susanna and the Elders. Woman bathing, one foot… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, the light seemed to arrive from a distinct direction, like the sun slanting through a gap in a curtain, but often… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
I would be doomed if I didn't invent humor in my life. When I was young, I had all these punk and… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically,… — Jean-Francois Chevrier Copy Share Image
Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
“The tan carpet was stiff and black with stripes of dried blood, spattered like a Jackson Pollock canvas. The walls were streaked… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
![“Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to be-though I'd never be a choreographer-some things might ought to be a dance [laughs]. I've found that exploring an idea in different ways, it gives you different opportunities.” quote by Andy Wilkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/724/andy-wilkinson-41009_choreographers_some-things-need-to-be-a-song-some-thing_2684398.jpg)
![“It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize. Pickman was a real painter who lived between 1888 and 1926. Now, there's a question mark [gesturing toward the writing in the margins of the…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf6/paul-laffoley-7077_certain_it-s-called-pickman-s-mephitic-models-ba_2476255.jpg)
