I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last. — Lucien Smith Copy Share Image
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston,… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary. — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the 'city of eternal spring' where she was born.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
“The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple levels of response. They may include… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings,… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
