Art Quote by Jacob Lawrence

Even if you can't afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be transported. You…

— Adrien Brody

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

— Rene Huyghe

When HSBC took the painting out of their building, they had to block the road and use a crane to bring the painting out…

— Liu Dan

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

— Balthus

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's…

— Adolph Gottlieb

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

— Leonardo da Vinci

In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are…

— Dalai Lama

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

— Jason Momoa

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