I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever… — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation.… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. — Edouard Manet 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
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the… — Max Beckmann 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
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art.… — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego. — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
