Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“The paint was glossy, the car was clean, and we had a full tank of gas to us. The future was up… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye Copy Share Image
When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings.… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter… — Amos Oz 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
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
In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
If you had every color and palette and any size canvas you'd want, it'd kind of feel overwhelming and you wouldn't make… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
“You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
I always love long shirt dresses with hand painting on it. It's just wonderful. — Jenny Packham Copy Share Image
I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do. — Wanda Koop Copy Share Image
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject,rather does the subject grow to look like his portrait. — Ceejay Copy Share Image
“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. — Stanley Horowitz Copy Share Image
The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting. — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye Copy Share Image
I saw the most beautiful moving painting at the art gallary the other day, but then I realized it was a mirror... — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc. — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
