I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy,… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one. — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have… — Balthus Copy Share Image
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a… — Pablo Picasso 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
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. — Francois Delsarte Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint… — Joe Louis Copy Share Image
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
