Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.” — Kazimir Severinovich Malevich Copy Share Image
“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.” — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without? — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never… — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
I did try painting, but it didn't work. I tried to dance, but that didn't work either. And then I tried to… — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have… — Max Kellerman Copy Share Image
I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I've since changed to digital, where you have so much more control.… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
“Elinor retreated to the terrace where the night air on her skin felt like a hot bath. She was hurt, it had… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good… — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work. — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting. — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up! — Max Liebermann Copy Share Image
The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye. — MF Doom Copy Share Image
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
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