My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus Copy Share Image
Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
