I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York… — Will Sergeant Copy Share Image
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
“They are very large in effect, these painters; very little self-conscious; they have smooth broad spaces in their minds where I am… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Great British painters, one might say, imitate the proverbial behaviour of buses. None come along for a century or more, then two… — Martin Gayford Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source.… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do.… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians. — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
“Beneath the nice book cover, camera angles, format of the page, size of the canvas, sound of the song – was someone… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
“Anyone can have original style,” he countered. “And yet no one truly does. We’re influenced by those who came before us, beginning… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
