Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Who was that?” I whispered, as if the walls could hear me. They were lined with pictures, a few of which I… — Amanda Hocking 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
When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever.… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they… — Pierre Bonnard 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
Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot… — Paul Hindemith Copy Share Image
“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
“The soft voice of a piccolo glided through the airy expanse of a small, brightly furnished room. A tall painter, dark locks… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
In college, I was a painter, and I had a strong interest in fashion. I just like this concept of being able… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never… — Augustus John Copy Share Image
Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist.… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians,… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World… — David Salle Copy Share Image