Art Quote by James Madison

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

— Pablo Picasso

Sunlight is painting.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Early June, Providence, Rhode Island, the sun up for almost two hours already, lighting up the pale bay and the smokestacks of the Narragansett…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Adrian was right that the sun I'd just described wasn't the design that had been the on the sword or brochure. Both of those…

— Richelle Mead

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their…

— Pablo Picasso

We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another,…

— Pablo Picasso

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were.…

— Ellen DeGeneres

The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean…

— Iain Sinclair

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

— Romain Rolland

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but…

— Georges Braque

“I believe that the old man did indeed have far too narrow an idea of what a vision might be. He may, so to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“To assess Franklin properly, we must view him, instead, in all his complexity. He was not a frivolous man, nor a shallow one, nor…

— Walter Isaacson