My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.” — Kazimir Severinovich Malevich Copy Share Image
We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive. — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
I'd have loved to be a painter, but I'm very mercurial, so it wouldn't have worked. — Taylor Russell Copy Share Image
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know,… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets… — David Milne Copy Share Image
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my… — Ray Toro Copy Share Image
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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