Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I wasn't artistic in drawing or painting, but I think I am artistic in sport. I think I'm always looking for the… — Robin Van Persie Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best… — Karla Kuskin Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The subtle hues of gold and yellow and the fresh greens and the pepper red seemed to spiral into a kaleidoscope of… — Jeffry R. Halverson Copy Share Image
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
“The one image I eventually found of Alexis St. Martin as a whole young man is in a painting by Dean Cornwell… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up... or bury! And when people say, 'Oh, he's an icon,' well, an icon… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
