Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture. — John Marin Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days. — Kirsty Gallacher Copy Share Image
I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases. — Larry Rivers Copy Share Image
What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two. -… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“He worked on small canvases with a touch as light as a cobweb and coloring made of mirages. He lived there, at… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the… — Roberta Flack Copy Share Image
Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“How do I describe him now? Where do I start? How do I distill the first impression created in those few distance… — Dorit Rabinyan Copy Share Image
If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
“ Pain. You overwhelm me," he said quietly. "And every time I see you or think of you, I can't grab a… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
“I will admit that I wanted to shout for standing on the top of a scaffold in front of a good new… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and… — James Nares Copy Share Image
It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting? — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
“The canvas of your life can reflect infinite beauty depending on the colors you opt to splash on it.” — Pooja Ruprell Copy Share Image
“You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.” — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain. — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most. — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
I wasn't trained as an actor at all. I had studied painting in America and had no clue about acting when I… — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences. — Leon Kossoff Copy Share Image
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands. — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
