#painting

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#always #away #been #cartoon #cartoons

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. ↗

— Claude Monet

#before #carries #composition #head #his

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours. ↗

— James Mooney

#after #afternoon #always #begins #commonly

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#important #important thing #keeping #painting #thing

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#behind #european #mask #matter #modern

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. ↗

— David Hockney

#another #drawing #haven #i #just

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#came #challenge #did #highlight #home

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#art #art forms #because #digested #each

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#art #hangs #hard #modern #modern art