The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art… — Georges Braque 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
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative. — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from… — Claudio Simonetti Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic:… — Jane Campion 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
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. — Vincente Minnelli Copy Share Image
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
