If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still” — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all… — Emanuel Steward Copy Share Image
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to… — Floyd Norman Copy Share Image
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a… — Feist Copy Share Image
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand. — David Alfaro Siqueiros Copy Share Image
As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
