I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art… — Thornton Willis Copy Share Image
In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“ 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun;… — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing.… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in… — Jack Waters Copy Share Image
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A… — George Inness Copy Share Image
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The painter stood entranced before the work which he hadwrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, This is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
