Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Lyricism is about painting a picture. It doesn't have to be a bunch of punchlines. — Logic Copy Share Image
Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I'm like anyone else. I'm sure people who write, paint or whatever. They think whatever they just did is their best. — Jani Lane Copy Share Image
In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.” — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting,… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Even if you can't afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the… — Wayne Thiebaud 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
“The great French diarist Jules Renard (1864-1910) had small interest in non-literary art forms. When Ravel approached him wanting to set five… — Julian Barnes 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
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
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I sat back and looked at it. It was ugly, dark, uncontrolled. Like a monster's face. Or maybe what I saw there… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
