I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to… — Galib Mammadov Copy Share Image
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they… — Jack Klugman Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after… — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Copy Share Image
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought,… — Ted Harrison Copy Share Image
There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but… — Osho Copy Share Image
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
