The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting. –--Manet to… — Manet Copy Share Image
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the… — Leopold Stokowski 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
I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but I'm a… — Drake Copy Share Image
I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration.… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her.… — John Huston Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes. — Tunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“It quite often makes me feel sad that painting’s like a bad mistress one might have, who’s always spending, spending and it’s… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I… — Becky G Copy Share Image
Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of… — Serena Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York… — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
An artist's initial broad stroke is always most impactful, and obsessively adding layer upon layer of paint to fill in details often… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.' — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could… — John Berger Copy Share Image
A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living. — Ivan Albright Copy Share Image
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
Just give us 50 years where we're the only ones who are allowed to profit from art, and then you can do… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
One of my biggest Disney influences in terms of world-building on this record was a background painter named Eyvind Earle, who was… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
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