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

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

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

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

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne."On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000)

Do something productive, like painting or procrastinating or protesting—which is just a combination of the first two.

To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

Hans then asked him about painting from nature; Jackson...bluntly offered a phrase that entered Village lore, “I am nature.

As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?