If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter. — Hokusai Copy Share Image
Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,” — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back.… — Lynda Barry 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
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he… — Lucian Freud 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
If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does. — Ralph H. Baer Copy Share Image
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel. — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I… — Rod Taylor Copy Share Image
My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language.… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. — John Constable Copy Share Image
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's… — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. — Ron White Copy Share Image
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
