Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.” — Leonhard Emmerling Copy Share Image
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and… — Shirley Eaton Copy Share Image
I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then… — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
I love Marcel Proust, but I leave him to his nostalgia. I don't approach art the way most people do. I don't… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool? — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“I can get you a framed painting if you like. Or you could suck it.” — Charlie Cochet Copy Share Image
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego. — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer. — Toni Onley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
I never saw a painting that would not be improved by the addition of tropical fish. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
