I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes. — Demis Roussos Copy Share Image
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do.… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
“I contend that one is likely to find more truth in fiction. A good painting after all is more truthful than a… — Vince Vawter Copy Share Image
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where anything can be ART.(Looking out of my window I see a full moon so I took… — Sam Marcellin Copy Share Image
I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Here, in this painting, in these (hopefully) creative meditations, you will see teh same sky and the same sun, the same story… — N. D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas.… — David Johansen Copy Share Image