I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“She only modelled for him once,' Max said stubbornly, leaning the canvases back against the wall and replacing the sheet. 'Once, twice… — Robert Goddard 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
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush. — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I try to teach a modernist and postmodernist position. On one hand, if you're a painter, you need to know the history… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I… — Marjane Satrapi 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
The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
