The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back.… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,” — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates… — Nita Engle Copy Share Image
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that… — John Constable Copy Share Image
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, I knew some painters older than myself. I was kind of the kid who was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter. — Hokusai Copy Share Image
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. — John Constable Copy Share Image
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language.… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel. — H. R. Giger 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
When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I… — Rod Taylor Copy Share Image
My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
