It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint… — Joe Louis Copy Share Image
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
I would rather say that I have to be not from Los Angeles but from America. When I go to Europe or… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,… — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and… — John Constable Copy Share Image
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true… — Francesco Albani Copy Share Image
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance? — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor… — Lois Mailou Jones Copy Share Image
I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter. — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
