Bars Quote by Thomas Eakins

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears…

— Edward Hopper

Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details…

— Charles Negre

I probably sensed the serious formality of the ceremonies and felt what others were feeling then. Looking back, I'd guess that it had opened…

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

“They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the candle on the table startled…

— Nicholas Christopher

It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.

— Alex Grey

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the…

— Plutarch

“Despite all the admiration M. Swann might profess for these figures of Giotto, it was a long time before I could find any pleasure…

— Proust Marcel

Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold…

— Maureen Johnson

I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of…

— Kehinde Wiley

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith…

— John Ruskin

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces…

— Leon Battista Alberti