California Quote by Margaret Keane

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

— John Dufresne

I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having…

— Artemisia Gentileschi

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.

— Vincent Gallo

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those…

— Diego Rivera

I was so fixated on being a wife and being there for someone else that I kind of neglected who I was as an…

— Keyshia Cole

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt…

— Conrad Veidt

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it…

— Henri Matisse

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art.…

— Edward G. Robinson

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

— Norman McLaren

I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and…

— Alec Monopoly

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

— John Burnside