I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you can create a reality that is entirely fictitious, it doesn't owe anything to this stuff out here, but you interact… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
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
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
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. I came out… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but… — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
