“To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!” — Mehmet Murat ildan 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
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to… — Arthur Symons 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
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun;… — Steven Whitney 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 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
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
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
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
“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
The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer,… — Wale Copy Share Image
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
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
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
