There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“This is the way of our work: We cannot help but color it with the paint of our feelings, both good and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color. — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
“I often paint self-portraits for it is I that know myself best-Freida Kahlo.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was… — James De La Vega Copy Share Image
What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
“The painting was a portrait of Cinderella, finished before the war. Before Erlauf. It showed Cinderella in a beautiful, elaborate—and uncomfortable, as… — K.M. Shea Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of… — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Copy Share Image
Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to… — Millard Sheets Copy Share Image
“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too. — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour. — Katherine Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“The teaching of actual painting could be outsourced to China and taught via SKYPE.” — John Seed Copy Share Image
Laid it on the ground, paint done got wetter. More fifteens in my trunk than Marcelle's Quinceaneara. — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting. — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal. — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting. — Andrew McDermott Copy Share Image
When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
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