I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change. — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world. — Olivier Megaton Copy Share Image
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I love art more than anything in the world except for my family. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It's a completely different way of working when you have your own place for recording. It's like if you were a painter,… — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman,… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
“The love of the painter standing alone and staring, staring at the great coloured surface he is making. Standing with him in… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting, — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
