Brother Quote by William Shakespeare

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp?

— William Shakespeare

Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state…

— William Shakespeare

It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

— William Hogarth

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

— Trevor Paglen

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life,…

— Caravaggio

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at…

— Balthus

... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May…

— Jim Butcher

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good…

— Claude Monet

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the…

— Roger Caillois

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

— Laura Owens