I was just lucky enough to grow up around the arts and have an open-minded family, to an extent. — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States. — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. — Xander Berkeley Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
My mom, Peggy, was a free spirit. She loved music and liked to paint. She had received her degree from Chouinard Art… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. .… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland. — David Russell Copy Share Image
A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time.… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter,… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness… — John Updike Copy Share Image
For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic:… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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