“The map of a face expresses things from which geography might learn. patrick Hayman, A Painter's Notes 1959” — Natasha Solomons Copy Share Image
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel. — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It's important for people to listen and take time to watch what's going on in these shows, especially the ones like 'Top… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“I’d stumbled upon the inner sanctuary of a woman who loved the world. Loved the faces of people she saw. Loved the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you… — Common Copy Share Image
Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of… — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
She digging me, checking out my paint job I'm digging her, trying to get a blow job. — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain. — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes. — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
“Picasso was mainly dealing with winning Lottery tickets... and sometimes with painting.” — Jean-Michel Rene Souche Copy Share Image
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings — Joseph Pisani Copy Share Image
