“ There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. ”
- Joseph Joubert- Copy
- 1.2K
“ He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an impostor. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 4K
“ My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 672
“ A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. ”
- Abraham Maslow- Copy
- 153
“ One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite — that particular peach is but a detail. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
- 588
“ A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 2.8K
“ If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. ”
- Leo Burnett- Copy
- 596
“ Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boastAnd those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 3.8K
“ For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. ”
- Christopher Columbus- Copy
- 186
“ In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture. ”
- Ben Shahn- Copy
- 443
“ If you were to take that away, it wouldn't be March Madness. It turns it into the same kind of fun like playing the lottery. ”
- Robert Thompson- Copy
- 2K
“ Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. ”
- Frida Kahlo- Copy
- 26
“ The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.2K
“ We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. ”
- Richard Avedon- Copy
- 1.2K
“ In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. ”
- Peter Porter- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures. ”
- David Lean- Copy
- 1.1K
“ You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. ”
- John Singer Sargent- Copy
- 2.5K
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