And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries. — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a… — Feist Copy Share Image
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still” — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all… — Emanuel Steward Copy Share Image
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, I knew some painters older than myself. I was kind of the kid who was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I wouldn't recommend it, because art school is a funny business. Yes, if you can find a situation where they'll give you… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society:… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him. — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer,… — Wale Copy Share Image
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
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