The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets… — David Milne Copy Share Image
My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know,… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because… — Frederic Goudy Copy Share Image
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
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Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
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I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters.… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course… — David Russell Copy Share Image
Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
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The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch… — Ken Adam Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a painter. I think of myself more as an artist who uses paintings rather than simply makes them.… — Landon Metz Copy Share Image
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We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually… — Carolyn Kizer 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
The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
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I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
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