The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
I've been painting and drawing fish since I was very young. My mom found old pictures I did when I was around… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
“Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one… — Brett Whiteley Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“Saturday-morning cartoon sure aren't what they used to be. The animation is lazy. Too clean. He misses being able to detect pencil… — Kara Lee Corthron Copy Share Image
“In order to understand how engineers endeavor to insure against such structural, mechanical, and systems failures, and thereby also to understand how… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
For me, in trying to talk about something like policing, it's such a huge issue, and it's an issue that's very local… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative… — John S. Dickerson Copy Share Image
The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
“Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If there is some red spot on one of my paintings it is unlikely to be the heart of the work. The… — Volkmar Essers Copy Share Image
What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem,… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line… — Andrew Forge Copy Share Image
“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes… — Teresa Palmer Copy Share Image
You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?)… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“all its occupants had left without her. This troubled Frances not in the least. She already seemed to have made a lot… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a real character. Instead of serving in the Army during the Korean War - he had polio, so he… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
You know, I'm incredibly blessed to be able to have this level of choice as an artist today. In this economy, it's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
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