I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting. — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative. — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now. — Kirsty Hume Copy Share Image
“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse… — Plato Copy Share Image
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own… — Mia Wasikowska 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
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
“What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter?… — Pablo Picasso 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
Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination;… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they… — Jack Klugman 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
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me. — George Jones Copy Share Image
