I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child,… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? — David Hockney Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a… — Georg Baselitz 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
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal 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
The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
