Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and… — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music… — Ted Shawn Copy Share Image
I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment. — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing… — Gene Black Copy Share Image
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I was looking to be pale, you know, like the kind of person who has that pigment in their skin where no… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
