A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative. — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they… — Jack Klugman Copy Share Image
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting. — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern. — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
