“I think deep down I'm a painter, but my hands just don't know how to move to capture the beauty.” — Wasabi Wheathins Copy Share Image
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art. — Richard Wollheim Copy Share Image
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I've just always been creative and my mom gave me the freedom to be an artist ever since I was young. — Doechii Copy Share Image
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting. — Titian Copy Share Image
It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals,… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes. — Demis Roussos Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
It's a completely different way of working when you have your own place for recording. It's like if you were a painter,… — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
