With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
“Painter and reality! Both of these are changers! But the painter changes reality virtually; on the other hand, reality changes the painter… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that… — Marion Vernoux Copy Share Image
[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him.… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me,… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
![“[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e6/warren-mackenzie-4654_ceramics_bernard-leach-was-the-one-who-taught-us_830509.jpg)
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