Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well. — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful… — Christopher Pearse Cranch Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a painter. I think of myself more as an artist who uses paintings rather than simply makes them.… — Landon Metz Copy Share Image
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch… — Ken Adam Copy Share Image
I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it,… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter? — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain… — Rembrandt Copy Share Image
The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others. — Emile Gruppe Copy Share Image
The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.” — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source.… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model... — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
