A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed. — Erro Copy Share Image
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It’s not about getting over things, it’s about making room for them. It’s about painting the picture with contrast.” — Brianna Wiest Copy Share Image
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.” — Max L. Phillips Copy Share Image
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is,… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
I think that I can get into the paint anytime I want to. What I have learned is that when I do… — Eric Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized… — Dale Purves Copy Share Image
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“-She paints some, Stanley said in a vindicatory tone. -Paints! Did you see the abstract she did for the Army Air Force?… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
One thing is sure - we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas.. ..To… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
