If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light. — Lola Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“I think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.” — Django Wexler Copy Share Image
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how… — John Green Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make… — Glenn O'Brien Copy Share Image
I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever… — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
My father was also a painter - actually, a traditional Chinese painter. His personality is pretty timid and cautious. Like him, I… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
“First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“For something to become a work of art, a labeling process must take place that requires three participants: an artist who produces… — Wyatt MacGaffey Copy Share Image
Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot… — Prince William Copy Share Image
An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
