I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself. — Gary Hume Copy Share Image
She painted a beautiful picture with blood as her paint and a blade as her brush. — Brii Garcia Copy Share Image
We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Nearly always in Dutch painting and often in the works of Giorgione or Titian, it is entirely independent of anything definitely poetical… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My process of working is not really that unique. I like to paint during the day, and block out large chunks of… — Rosson Crow Copy Share Image
“She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
That authentic experience that happens both in the artist and in the audience you can classify as a mystical experience. You can… — Janaka Stucky Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“He looked like a painting in restoration - that at some point in his life he had been beautiful.” — Tor Udall Copy Share Image
I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“I just bought a can of brown paint. It’s more expensive than coffee, but I really hit the wall after I chug… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.” — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself. — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
