Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing.… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in… — Jack Waters Copy Share Image
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A… — George Inness Copy Share Image
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that… — Marion Vernoux Copy Share Image
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life. — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image