I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world,… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
I would rather say that I have to be not from Los Angeles but from America. When I go to Europe or… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. — Jackson Pollock 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
Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well. — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision. — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow.… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals,… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
