The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one. — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
“With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are… — Jordan Bridges Copy Share Image
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for… — Herwarth Walden Copy Share Image
The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris.… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
“Painter" "I said you are only keeping me here in the hospital, lying to my parents and saying I am madder than… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting… — Titian Copy Share Image
I really admire songwriters or any kind of writer, painter or artist that says, "I'm going to get up at 8 o'clock… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex 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
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
