Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth. She felt no pain.… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
I have met a lot of the people who were stiffed by you and your businesses, Donald [Trump]. I've met dishwashers, painters,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always resented that actually.. we were… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from… — Claudio Simonetti Copy Share Image
Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So,… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
I used to wish I would be a painter or a violinist, where maybe I wouldn't need to travel as much. Or… — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
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Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation,… — Dichen Lachman Copy Share Image
You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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