Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all? — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. — Philip Guston 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
My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in the art… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
“To know in order to do, that was my idea. To be in a position to translate the customs, the ideas, the… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“When people look at my work, they often say, “Your picture is so good. I can’t even draw a straight line.” I… — Alice Provensen Copy Share Image
Why try to explain away a portrait of You painted by the insecurities of another? You didn't pick the brushes, the colors,… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
“Ashton Adams, the real Ashton Adams, had had a wonderful week. He had attended four poetry readings and two séances, as well… — Lev A.C. Rosen Copy Share Image
My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
I liked painting, very early on, even more than drawing. I used poster paint on posterboard. I would copy images that I… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
![“When people look at my work, they often say, “Your picture is so good. I can’t even draw a straight line.” I think everyone can learn to draw. The important thing is to keep trying, keep drawing. […] Young children make marvelous pictures. There is nothing they can’t draw. They paint and draw from…” quote by Alice Provensen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c65/alice-provensen-84348_children_when-people-look-at-my-work-they-often-s_978720.jpg)
