Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of… — John Constable Copy Share Image
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? — Eva Marie Saint Copy Share Image
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do.… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others… — Horace 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
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer.… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to… — Galib Mammadov Copy Share Image
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image