Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.” — Angelica Kauffman Copy Share Image
Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.” — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
“You can't make the good old days come back just by painting pictures of them. That kind of stuff is dead now… — in the late 1960s Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“The painting of your home is something that is very important. This is because it is something that people can see. It… — Brian Erik Jamison Copy Share Image
“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar,… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“They’re all daubers, today’s painters; they’ve completely lost touch with the classical tradition, the subtle, noble craft of the old masters. They… — Stefan Hertmans Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
“Thanks for your encouraging words. But I know the grim realities of being an artist. Most of us would never make a… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A thousand painters can paint for a 1,000 years, but can't make a work of art as beautiful as you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it. — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.” — Kazimir Severinovich Malevich Copy Share Image
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
