Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished,… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
Kids draw masterpieces - they're the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if… — Bjork Copy Share Image
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things… — Jordan Bridges Copy Share Image
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough,… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
No one ever gets to see Foley artists at work, and they're so strange. They see the world differently: things as things… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which… — Tony Kaye Copy Share Image
With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow.… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I… — Finn Juhl Copy Share Image
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art.… — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
To me there's something so great about a singer who's very great and successful and does great work even though they don't… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do… — Romero Britto Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that.… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never… — Carlos Gavito Copy Share Image
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