Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting...

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.

Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it.

How do you even know I’m someone you’ll want to remember? We’ve only seen each other once before.'(Amber)’Have you ever looked at a painting and known you had something in common with it? Have you...

It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are...

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

In painting, three things must be considered – the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception… as film is able to do today… And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons,...

I haven’t the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas — can...

There are only two styles of portrait painting, the serious and the smirk

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing…

I put my deodorant on like I’m painting my armpits with a paintbrush. Art is everywhere and in everything—especially love.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark… my value unhangable.

I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour?Colour is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the darkness. Because I’ve listened to souls...

Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.

We have to be very careful what we do with the Derby. It’s like a classic painting. Someone already put the colors on the Derby. That part, we understand. Our job is not to add...

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Painting, drawing – I’m really into photography, I’ve done it since high school.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look...

I sat back and looked at it. It was ugly, dark, uncontrolled. Like a monster’s face. Or maybe what I saw there was my own face. I couldn’t quite tell. Was the face the image...

He said, one has to learn that painting well – in the academic and technical sense – comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you’ve got that ability. So have thousands.

I visit him a few times downtownwhile he paints.We talk about how he’s going to Spainfor the fall semesterand he shows me a painting he didand points to this one part,a bridge, and tells me...

They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation....

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer...

I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to...

A painted surface is a real, living form.

Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized...

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist – it wasn’t just about painting, it was about media and performance.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it’s not.

Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn’t, but every day you try. That’s what...

Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

For some reason, today we’re painting the whole picture with a broad brush and a few profit warnings are really damaging that landscape for the companies that are good (performers).

yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* …. who...

Snow on one side of the canvas, silence on the other. I’d call that a perfect painting.

It’s often about the simple things, isn’t it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.

The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering it visible. The painter shows or allows the seeing of “something”...

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Elle n’avait jamais vraiment aimé les impressionnistes. Elle trouvait qu’ils manquaient d’outrance, de passion. Seul Renoir, parfois, savait traiter un corps de femme avec ce manque de respect qui lui était dû.

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly...

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren’t careful.

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn’t do finger painting in my dress.

Painting isn’t his primary job, and, he’s only been doing it for 19 months.