Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing.… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar,… — David Salle Copy Share Image
He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread… — Rajneesh 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
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke. — Andrew McAleer Copy Share Image
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to… — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of… — Roberto Cavalli Copy Share Image
A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form:… — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
My parents thought art was important and a lot of my childhood was spent doing some form of it or another. — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image