I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people. — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine... — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
My mother was a housewife. My father worked in the agriculture business, but they were very encouraging about everything. When I said… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way,… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others'… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus Copy Share Image
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art. — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. — Horace Copy Share Image
“life had taught her that the men who took least care of their appearance - as with this painter - always seemed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
