Abstract Quote by John Van Hamersveld

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as…

— John Van Hamersveld

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

— Ansel Adams

The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and…

— Hilma af Klint

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the…

— Henri Matisse

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

— Andreas Feininger

I made this in art class, with pen and watercolors

— Aly Johnson

I have no artistic training - as you might have guessed from all the stick figures! - and there are a few things I…

— Randall Munroe

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in…

— Jeff Koons

A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.

— Helen Frankenthaler

My father, Fukujuro, drove a cab and my mother, Itsuko, was a homemaker. My parents often took me to see Impressionist exhibits. At home,…

— Takashi Murakami

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

— Romare Bearden

The images for my works are somewhat insignificant to me. It became an exercise of variation. I only see the surface images as doodles…

— Tara Donovan