Animal Art Quotes

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...

As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.