Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer.… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to… — Galib Mammadov Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Being a composer is a little like being a painter. Sometimes you hire a painter because you want a beautiful painting for… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
“This is a painting by a French painter who's 35-year old named Francois Arnal, it's called The Drowning Woman…I certainly don't see… — Jean Seberg Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do.… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others… — Horace Copy Share Image
The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
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