It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. — William Allan Copy Share Image
I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me. — George Jones Copy Share Image
Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still” — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. — Ed O'Brien Copy Share Image
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I would rather say that I have to be not from Los Angeles but from America. When I go to Europe or… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“It was a tribute to Raphael that lesser artists wanted to copy his work, but this… this was a travesty. The fresco… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries. — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
