Art Quote by J. E. H. MacDonald

@Ritzy, there is the cabin type thing I was drawing(and I told you it sucked) and @DaHandsome, I wasn't kidding when I told you…

— Ambry Hope

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't…

— Joe Shuster

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over…

— Thomas Cole

“The painted picture was a bit rough, which was probably done on purpose, yet seemed eerily real as if there actually was a way…

— Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

— Oscar Niemeyer

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and…

— Yves Tanguy

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

— Bill Sienkiewicz

David Shrigley is somewhere between stand-up comedy and cave paintings. He does these brilliant esoteric, simple drawings - you might even say bad drawings.…

— Noah Reid

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

— George Eliot

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch…

— Robert Ben Garant

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have…

— Raymond Pettibon

“It was an archetypal ruin portrait, a sub-genre that was terribly common during the fifteenth century. The top third of the picture-plane hosted a…

— Sylvie Cathrall