When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must… — Charles Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are… — Jordan Bridges Copy Share Image
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The… — J. G. Ballard 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
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
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter… — Jack D. Schwager Copy Share Image
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer. — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings. — David Alfaro Siqueiros Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
