A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette,… — Gino Bartali Copy Share Image
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would… — Hilma af Klint Copy Share Image
Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters:… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet… — Jorg Immendorff Copy Share Image
Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it.… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it's not… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished,… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Kids draw masterpieces - they're the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which… — Tony Kaye Copy Share Image
With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
No one ever gets to see Foley artists at work, and they're so strange. They see the world differently: things as things… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
