The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life. — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least… — John Constable Copy Share Image
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural,… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally… If you think of yourself in terms of… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him.… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“He was occupied with the forming of a pattern out of the manifold chaos of life, and the materials with which he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one. — Hemistich Copy Share Image
Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars. — Dorothea Tanning Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty. — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
