Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I think I'm built like a painter. I have friends who are painters and they reflect a similar psychological attitude towards their… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last.… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
It simply becomes more and more difficult as you move further away from your heyday, music being the only format where you're… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and… — Paul Delaroche Copy Share Image
I really admire songwriters or any kind of writer, painter or artist that says, "I'm going to get up at 8 o'clock… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting… — Titian 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
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter? — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it,… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain… — Rembrandt Copy Share Image
The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others. — Emile Gruppe Copy Share Image
The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion. — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
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