“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do. — Brassai Copy Share Image
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how… — Dean Mitchell Copy Share Image
Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the… — Arthur Wesley Dow Copy Share Image
I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Sitting at the corner, and I ddnt know what to do and so I grabbed my brush and started to draw of… — Roo Roosing Potestas Copy Share Image
There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen,… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself.… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already… — Leon Daudet Copy Share Image