American character Quote by Benedict Cumberbatch

I paint the American scene.

— Robert Indiana

Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels…

— Cynthia Daignault

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

— Edward Ruscha

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the…

— Luc Tuymans

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a…

— Donald Barthelme

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

— Tom Hooper

When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do that," but…

— Alec Monopoly

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed…

— Nicolas Cage

I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I have always…

— Ray Metzker

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn.…

— Andre Gide