“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Design is meant to grab you and win you over. It is meant to function in a way so as to make… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I wish I could be more serious about painting. I think there may be something going on there and I should pursue… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
“Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in… — Tamara Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
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