If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush. — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a… — Feist Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to… — Floyd Norman Copy Share Image
I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
One of my sisters is a hardcore painter; another is hardcore into CrossFit. — Chloe Fineman Copy Share Image
The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty. — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
