I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.),… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“He pulled me toward him, and all I could do was stand there with arms at my sides and head against his… — Jodi LaPalm Copy Share Image
Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange.… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use -… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
My family still lives over there [ in South Africa] .I miss them terribly. I would say that most of my life… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're… — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
See, the same old Ella still lives.” He grins… “She just needed a little push out.”… “No, she doesn’t. She’s gone forever.”… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But… — Chris Farley Copy Share Image
There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
One thing I had on my side when it came to How to Make It in America is that I'm a born-and-raised… — Victor Rasuk Copy Share Image
There's the larger shiny Marvel universe where everybody has new gear and it's all made of chrome and leather. And then there's… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape,… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image