Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box. — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color. — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“We weren't violent then. There is a difference between paint and not.” — Darin Bradley Copy Share Image
“A story is like a painting, Sóli. It doesn’t have to look like what you see out the window.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the… — Rosa Bonheur 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
“It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art,… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love!… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone. — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art. — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer ” — Ewlyn Fernando Copy Share Image
There are three things I have always loved, and never understood - painting, music, women. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
