If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it,… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach. — Gilbert Stuart Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
“When I golf, I use just enough strokes to create a masterpiece, like I'm a painter. The score I post up would… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
