If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people… — Slash Copy Share Image
Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not…All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful… — Christopher Pearse Cranch Copy Share Image
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger 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
I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a… — Brett Dalton Copy Share Image
As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat,… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, 'I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest… — Franco Moschino Copy Share Image
One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
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