Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait! — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me. — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint. — Rex Brandt Copy Share Image
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
“It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Painting my nails is the easiest way to look as though I've made an effort. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Our lives are more like a canvas on which we paint, than a script we need to learn – though the illusion… — Fiona Givens Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening,… — Tom Irwin Copy Share Image
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely… — Hendrik Tennekes Copy Share Image
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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