If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.” — Juan Miro Copy Share Image
“Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.” — Carol Brearley Copy Share Image
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other. — Jack Welpott Copy Share Image
Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage,… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Pa-ta Shan-jen (A painter who watched Mingfall) lived in a tree: The brush May paint the mountains and streams Though the territory… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I'm used… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
There is always a better choice that you were unable to quite touch with a single stroke. Even in acting, there comes… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I can't make things I don't feel passionately about. I've never been able to. Years ago when I was going through college,… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
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