An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a painter. I think of myself more as an artist who uses paintings rather than simply makes them.… — Landon Metz Copy Share Image
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why… — Michael Haneke 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
It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation.… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego. — Igor Babailov 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
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
