Painting Quote by Dan Brown

“Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to clients. Leonardo…

— Walter Isaacson

“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work. The creation…

— Walter Isaacson

François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did something special…

— I. M. Pei

“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it. But the…

— Greg Iles

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I saw the most beautiful moving painting at the art gallary the other day, but then I realized it was a mirror...

— Nikhil Saluja

“In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and…

— Oscar Wilde

If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner…

— Duane Michals

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a…

— Ted Harrison

In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade…

— Paul Mellon

“The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive into the…

— Pete Hamill

“expensive paint jobs in history. Michelangelo began at the top of the wall and slowly worked his way down for more than seven years,…

— Benjamin Blech