“Remember when we didn't know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes… — Mona Adnan Copy Share Image
Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“I like to work in watercolor, with as little under-drawing as I can get away with. I like the unpredictability of a… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
What really happened was one day in my late five I went out and I found my dad in the garage staining… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
Royce turned to Hadrian. “It’s supposed to make them look tough, but all it really does is make it easy to identify… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of Caio-ness I wanted to keep was that left to right reading, where one form draws… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
“Now he stood in the farthest end of the cave, in front of the great lion chase he had watched Thorn paint… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Chiara points to the ceiling and my eyes follow the lead. There it is. Right. Up. There. The most famous painting I’ve… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
“Love is an art, Berk. Just like painting or music. Some painters draw mere lines, scratches on the canvas and call them… — T. Afsin Ilgar Copy Share Image
“A man looks down at the red paint on his hands and wonders for a moment if he’s killed his wife and… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
“He unzipped the nylon case, and inside was a discolored frame that smelled like smoke. A thin layer of soot covered the… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
We are all artists in everything we do. Art is creating; it is our link that makes us like god. All you… — Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey Copy Share Image
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“An irregular birthmark stood out on the crest of her hip, like a splash of wine on snow. He touched a finger… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in… — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
“ Rose shook her head and dipped her brush into the Dusty Pink dollop on her palette, thinking it was so funny… — Goldy Moldavsky Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I come from a painting background, and although my painting is completely different from my performances, there is something about the fundamentals… — Tehching Hsieh Copy Share Image
Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons.… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“You are beautiful, sweetheart. All I did was draw what I saw." "No," Meghann said, awed by the beauty in the painting.… — Trisha Baker Copy Share Image
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
“Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in it's tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
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