What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
A thousand painters can paint for a 1,000 years, but can't make a work of art as beautiful as you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it. — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
“You can't make the good old days come back just by painting pictures of them. That kind of stuff is dead now… — in the late 1960s Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The painters were teenage girls and young women who became friendly during their hours together and entertained themselves during breaks by playing… — Deborah Blum Copy Share Image
A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and… — Edward Ruscha 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
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
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
“Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians,… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.” — Kazimir Severinovich Malevich Copy Share Image
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art. — Richard Wollheim Copy Share Image
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you” — Shannon Dermott Copy Share Image
