We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had… — Alfred Sisley 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
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
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
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of… — Albrecht Durer 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
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde 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
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
“Keith Haring wrote " You see that's why I work like a dog and I worked like a dog all my life.… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I try to teach a modernist and postmodernist position. On one hand, if you're a painter, you need to know the history… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
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