Hope Quote by Skylar Cross

“You can't make the good old days come back just by painting pictures of them. That kind of stuff is dead now and I…

— in the late 1960s Norman Rockwell

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp

“WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? WHY YOUR FIVE-YEAR-OLD COULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT HOW TO SURVIVE MODERN ART”

— Dan Brown

“-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.”

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to me not…

— Wendy Froud

“The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That's initially what got me interested in painting, is that I could create any kind of world that I wanted. No bad stuff here.…

— Bob Ross

“My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.”

— L.R.W. Lee

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it.”

— Danny Kaye

“Seven, ten, fifteen, eighteen years old and still there is nothing finer than a blank sheet of paper, the white promise that the world…

— Stacey Jay

“I’m making tiny pictures, on a canvas that is bigger than anyone can ever imagine. My tiny pictures seem to get lost in the…

— Nanne Nyander