How Quote by Emir Kusturica

I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate way that…

— Sigrid

“Pre-Raphaelites they called themselves; not that they imitated the early Italian masters at all, but that in their work, as opposed to the facile…

— Oscar Wilde

“I spent all day wandering up and down the hallways, staring at the Mona Lisa and Canova’s 'Psyche and Cupid' and the 'Venus de…

— Jonathan Hull

“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don't think, 'oh I…

— Donna Tartt

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

“Like it!” I exclaimed. “It is lovely — wonderful! It is worthy to rank with the finest Italian masterpieces.” “Oh, no!” remonstrated Zara; “no,…

— Marie Corelli

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised…

— Georg Baselitz

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund…

— Alan Lee

“If we limit ourselves to painting as an example, both for brevity’s sake and because in that field my ignorance is slightly less complete…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Art—at least great art—by its very nature has varying levels, or layers, of meaning. In fact, a masterpiece comes to be considered a masterpiece…

— Benjamin Blech

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

— Mark Rothko