A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you… — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that.… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and… — Moby Copy Share Image
A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never… — Carlos Gavito Copy Share Image
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor...… — Keith Floyd Copy Share Image
“The painter's face curdled with scorn "You think I'm proud of this daub?" he said. "You think this is my idea of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do… — Romero Britto Copy Share Image
To me there's something so great about a singer who's very great and successful and does great work even though they don't… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art.… — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow.… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I… — Finn Juhl Copy Share Image
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I… — John Currin Copy Share Image
I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
“the painter, Cezanne, would leave blank spaces on his canvas when he couldn’t account for the brush strokes, or the color”--- “How… — John Guare Copy Share Image
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
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