I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden… — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So,… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm… — Vik Muniz 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
The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto,… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image