Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if… — Sarah Ruhl 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
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing. — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun;… — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A… — George Inness Copy Share Image
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in… — Jack Waters Copy Share Image
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Along with my dad, my mother's pretty high up there. She's a star! Her interests are so diverse - she's an art… — Roshni Nadar Copy Share Image
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. — Edgar Alwin Payne 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
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and… — Sam Francis 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
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I could have been born into any family. I was fortunate that I was born to an artist as extraordinary as Picasso,… — Claude Picasso 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
What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image