The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea. — Robert Henri 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
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
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot… — Walter J. Phillips 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
Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they… — Mordicai Gerstein 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
It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value… — Daniel Kehlmann 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
Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot… — Paul Hindemith Copy Share Image
I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and… — Charles M. Schulz 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
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
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
