Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. — Ed O'Brien Copy Share Image
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand. — David Alfaro Siqueiros Copy Share Image
As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way,… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation.… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty. — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week! — L. S. Lowry Copy Share Image
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush. — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
