When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself. — Jean Fautrier Copy Share Image
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all. — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
“Once you have a blank canvas in front of your eyes, you can think about how you want to paint it.” — Dr Prem Jagyasi Copy Share Image
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting, because I was curious what the colors I… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite… The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with… — David Dixon Copy Share Image
I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
“What is art? Art is tar, rearranged. Art is tar on canvas or tar on tarp or tar on a naked body.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room.… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
Being a composer is a little like being a painter. Sometimes you hire a painter because you want a beautiful painting for… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
“Broken Antler Gallery for three seasons, and I knew buyers sometimes disparaged a work as a ploy to negotiate a lower price.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
