A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything,… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
“Only for those prepared to leave their familiar life behind, will life emerge in a new gown of continually expanding beauty and… — Hilma af Klint Copy Share Image
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with… — David Salle Copy Share Image
This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films,… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A… — Anne Archer Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto,… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
We get better product when the focus is on the fans and the artists - all artists; musical artists; singers, the graphic… — David Banner Copy Share Image
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say,… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted… — Caravaggio Copy Share Image
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
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