I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens…

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read…

— Sharon Creech

When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a writer and an artist when I grew up. So in college, I was…

— Caterina Fake

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point…

— Oscar Wilde

I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.

— Wendy Williams

I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957…

— Patti Smith

People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. It's very…

— Meredith Ostrom

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.”

— Oscar Wilde

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke…

— Joan Didion

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

— Marcel Dzama

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

— John James Audubon

I built the film [Boy and the World] this way. I gathered all the tools I usually use such as brushes, color pencils, crayons,…

— Alex Abreu

You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model…

— John L. Casti

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would…

— Ansel Adams

I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.

— Mini Grey