I think I'm built like a painter. I have friends who are painters and they reflect a similar psychological attitude towards their… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries. — Cary Elwes 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
Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and… — Sam Francis Copy Share Image
The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child,… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others. — Michel Eugene Chevreul Copy Share Image
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
