Artist Quote by Cy Twombly

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.

— Alan Green

“It is clear that I must find my other half. But is it a he or a she? What does this person look like?…

— John Cameron Mitchell

They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature,…

— Robert Hass

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

— Blaise Pascal

It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you…

— Werner Herzog

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's…

— Frank Gehry

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

— Paul Bourget

Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because…

— Andy Warhol

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

— Kerry James Marshall

“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

— Joe Lycett