The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life. — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown… — Aleksa Palladino Copy Share Image
Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally… If you think of yourself in terms of… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural,… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along. — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
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