“Before you paint someone poorly, check the brush — it may be carrying the colors of your own reflection.” — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it. — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box. — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color. — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time,… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation. — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
If I had to choose a color for passion ,it will be white ,every touch or kiss will fill the canvas with… — Laylablack Copy Share Image
A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“There are large and stately studios, panelled and high, in strong stone houses filled with gleaming brass and polished oak. There are… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“In 1972, Bayber's work underwent another metamorphosis, yet refused to be defined by or adhere to any specific style. Elements of abstract… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on.… — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“A story is like a painting, Sóli. It doesn’t have to look like what you see out the window.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We weren't violent then. There is a difference between paint and not.” — Darin Bradley Copy Share Image
The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone. — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art. — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer ” — Ewlyn Fernando Copy Share Image
You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
