I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
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People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and… — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him.… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
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There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural,… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer… — Harry S. Broudy Copy Share Image
Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could… — Lorenz Hart Copy Share Image
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
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The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
![“People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.” quote by Katharine Whitehorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a47/katharine-whitehorn-12429_bad-impression_people-get-a-bad-impression-of-it-the-en_1052689.jpg)
![“[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e6/warren-mackenzie-4654_ceramics_bernard-leach-was-the-one-who-taught-us_830509.jpg)
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