I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy. — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer… — Harry S. Broudy Copy Share Image
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally… If you think of yourself in terms of… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
