Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day. — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing. — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a… — Balthus Copy Share Image
One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought,… — Ted Harrison Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Painting is feeling, never spoil it, Face is a book, try to read it, Love is precious, b ready to sacrifice for… — Babloo Copy Share Image
I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light,… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
“In a world where no one is compelled to work more than four hours a day, every person possessed of scientific curiosity… — Roman Krznaric Copy Share Image
When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Svetlana said that she identified with that Madonna more than with any other woman in any other painting. She kept asking me… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one’s greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Creativity is portrait of dream. Live & follow your dream.Creativity will take a shape itself. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
When someone shows you who they really are, dont try to paint a new picture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
If you hear a voice within you say you can not paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time’s arrow moves the other way.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
