Art is colourblind - the only colour thats meant to be in art is on the canvas. — Danny John-Jules Copy Share Image
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing. — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter... — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it. — Janet Fish Copy Share Image
I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious,… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that… — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
“And more even than the painter, the writer, in order to achieve volume and substance, in order to attain to generality and,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Claude Monet's Water Lilies (The Clouds) consists of nothing more than dabs of different colored paint on a canvas.14 But because of… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
“Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
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