Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings,… — Victoria Azarenka Copy Share Image
The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw.… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they… — Jack Klugman Copy Share Image
Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar,… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but… — Osho Copy Share Image
If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought,… — Ted Harrison Copy Share Image
There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be an artist and follow in my mother's footsteps, even though I know I am not allowed to… — Princess Stephanie of Monaco Copy Share Image
Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility. — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer. — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
