Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
“This is a painting by a French painter who's 35-year old named Francois Arnal, it's called The Drowning Woman…I certainly don't see… — Jean Seberg Copy Share Image
“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people… — Slash Copy Share Image
Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not…All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after… — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Copy Share Image
Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion. — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
