“If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.” — Hokusai Katsushika Copy Share Image
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. —Voltaire” — Steven D. Price Copy Share Image
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible. — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting. — Marcel Dzama Copy Share Image
“She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her… — Amy Efaw Copy Share Image
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way. — Rita Ackermann Copy Share Image
There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you… — John Marin Copy Share Image
Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“Know therefore! In order to achieve total painting , which requires the active cooperation of all the senses... you must paint, as… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
I tell a lot of interesting stories and talk about my background and have a lot of fun. We have a lot… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow… — Andrew McDermott Copy Share Image
“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I think his paintings are cathartic for him,” she said. “After you experience trauma that deep, you need to do something to… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
“All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Biggie was to me the guy who was the best at painting the picture and making you visualize something, Pac was the… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate. — Jean-Paul Riopelle Copy Share Image
The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes. — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp” — Alice Goldfarb Marquis Copy Share Image
Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider. — Roger Verge Copy Share Image
When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
“Instead of a blank canvas, school hands kids a coloring book and tells them to stay within the lines.4 What” — Tim Urban Copy Share Image
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. — John Marin Copy Share Image
It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means. — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
