“True artists know how to cut their subjects open and bleed them onto the canvas.” — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
“I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that's all you see. Oh, and I used a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
The vast amount of time it takes to make my paintings is very challenging. I have so many exciting ideas I would… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the… — Neil Welliver Copy Share Image
Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
“I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour? Colour is the touch of the eye, music… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.” — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“When you build a house You nail down memories Paint and stain the fabric of time” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next. — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
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