I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
“I do not possess the ability to draw or paint. I can’t sing or dance. I can’t knit or sew. But I… — Aubrey Becker Copy Share Image
I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
Everybody has had the experience of something they love - whether it's a pop song or a painting or a movie -… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I have two paintings that used to belong to my grandmother, who lived in Chicago. When I was young, I used to… — Marisol Nichols Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad.… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“Sal and Henry return with a gust of warm garden air and I settle down to create miniature roses from sugarpaste using… — Martine Bailey Copy Share Image
“I struggle again to draw this man's face in a crowd of faces: which dog-eared lines and frayed adjectives do I use?… — Dorit Rabinyan Copy Share Image
“She sat up, cheeks flushed and golden hair tousled. She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache. I always wished… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
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Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I want the viewer to be overwhelmed. I want the space to feel like it is caving in on the viewer and… — Rosson Crow Copy Share Image
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
“Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
As far as trying to make it terms of social hierarchy or status and all that in art and music - I've… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting,… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you… — John Green Copy Share Image
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A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
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