What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.” — Karel Teige Copy Share Image
I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics. — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
I want to leave behind paintings and sculptures that can inspire someone. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it… [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
“I concentrated on his eyes and his facial expression. Those said a lot about a person. I’d noticed that his eyes changed… — Marysue G. Hobika Copy Share Image
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
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