Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that."… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter. — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know. — Brice Marden 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
Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In college, I was a painter, and I had a strong interest in fashion. I just like this concept of being able… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing.… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
