For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine... — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. — Horace Copy Share Image
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach. — Gilbert Stuart Copy Share Image
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“life had taught her that the men who took least care of their appearance - as with this painter - always seemed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have… — Balthus Copy Share Image
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art. — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus Copy Share Image
I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to."… — Lori Petty Copy Share Image
All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
