“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh. — Mickie James Copy Share Image
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person. — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father. — David Platt Copy Share Image
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for… — John Currin Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
“according to my figures I've only had 2500 pieces of ass but I've watched 12500 horse races, and if I have any… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Phidias and the achievements of Greek art are foreshadowed in Homer: Dante prefigures for us the passion and colour and intensity of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision… — Marcel Paquet Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci.… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
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