One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can… — Richard Schmid 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
I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy,… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand… — John Hench Copy Share Image
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with… — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is… — James Nares Copy Share Image
A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world,… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star… His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that… — Billy Magnussen Copy Share Image
I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever… — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint.… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
Don't you love it when people in school are like, “I'm a bad test taker”? You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
