I don't know any artists or painters, like, "Oh that painting group." I want to write down this idea of a group… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by… — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Blood is very powerful. While meat is the substance that keeps our living souls in this physical reality, blood keeps our meat… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them… — William Morris Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw.… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings,… — Victoria Azarenka Copy Share Image
The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and… — Paul Delaroche Copy Share Image
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
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