I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a… — Feist Copy Share Image
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy… — Francis Bacon 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
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually… — Carolyn Kizer 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
I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I wouldn't recommend it, because art school is a funny business. Yes, if you can find a situation where they'll give you… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society:… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change. — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
“Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me. — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as… — John Constable Copy Share Image
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that."… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
