If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all. — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion. — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting. — Graham Sutherland Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint. — Rex Brandt Copy Share Image
For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others. — Michel Eugene Chevreul Copy Share Image
“You have to work with the paint and work with whatever the day brings you. If it's a wee bit dreary out,… — Kieran Kramer Copy Share Image
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“With the way the light shone on her, she looked spotlighted, as if a painter had rendered her that way, the center… — Jillian Hart Copy Share Image
The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your main contribution is spray painting your nickname on other people's things. And my cousin, who's a 'gangster', he's like, 'No, Tash,… — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“Once an artist painted on a huge canvas - the skies; The sun, the landscapes and everything that was nice. To complete… — Sushrut A. Badhe Copy Share Image
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could… — Lorenz Hart Copy Share Image
