Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself. — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it. — Harold Town Copy Share Image
“The universe has been painting its creations with many of the same brushes.” “Do” — Nathan Van Coops Copy Share Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
“He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to… — Fay Faron Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“The first contact of brush on canvas is a heady thing. I think it's the promise of something wonderful, beautiful. You can… — S. Walden Copy Share Image
It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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