I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now. — Kirsty Hume Copy Share Image
“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse… — Plato Copy Share Image
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
“Painter and reality! Both of these are changers! But the painter changes reality virtually; on the other hand, reality changes the painter… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and… — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me,… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination;… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown… — Aleksa Palladino Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
