I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse… — Plato Copy Share Image
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now. — Kirsty Hume Copy Share Image
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer,… — Wale Copy Share Image
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by… — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Blood is very powerful. While meat is the substance that keeps our living souls in this physical reality, blood keeps our meat… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter. — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown… — Aleksa Palladino Copy Share Image
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least… — John Constable Copy Share Image
