He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.” — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her,… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Cinema informed my painting by the sheer geography - on locations, there is so much downtime. And when you're spending all this… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
“and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint you suddenly wonder why in the world… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Cedar groaned and picked up her spoon with her bright blue fingers. While the rest of her was the fiery brown of… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
There's a difference between craft and painting. Craft, your job is to make it exactly the same every time. Painting is the… — Michael Chow Copy Share Image