I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts. — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits! — Paterson Ewen Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative. — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego. — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without… — Georg Baselitz 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
The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they… — Fred Armisen 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
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar,… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they… — Jack Klugman Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
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