I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And… — Larry Sanders Copy Share Image
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place. — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The painter stood entranced before the work which he hadwrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, This is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I don't know any artists or painters, like, "Oh that painting group." I want to write down this idea of a group… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as… — Fred Gwynne Copy Share Image
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves… — Horace Copy Share Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
“With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
Because my parents are Rwandan, there was always a lot of colour and artwork in our house and that informed my love… — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Painter and reality! Both of these are changers! But the painter changes reality virtually; on the other hand, reality changes the painter… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
