For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to… — Caio Fonseca 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
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
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance? — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his… — Claude Monet 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
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
One of my sisters is a hardcore painter; another is hardcore into CrossFit. — Chloe Fineman Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy 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
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. — William Allan Copy Share Image
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that.… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is… — James Nares Copy Share Image
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried… — Jacob Rothschild 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
