I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way. — Laura Gilpin Copy Share Image
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa 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
From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and… — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination;… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads… — Robert Venosa Copy Share Image
Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
This happened to me last week. We're in the process of remodeling our house; we've been doing it for a while now.… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least… — John Constable Copy Share Image
My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life. — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
My father was also a painter - actually, a traditional Chinese painter. His personality is pretty timid and cautious. Like him, I… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
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