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
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso 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
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“Painter and reality! Both of these are changers! But the painter changes reality virtually; on the other hand, reality changes the painter… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I don't think painters have the answers about a painting except the painting itself. Anyway, a painting has to have some kind… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her… — E.A. Bucchianeri 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
“The painters were teenage girls and young women who became friendly during their hours together and entertained themselves during breaks by playing… — Deborah Blum Copy Share Image
“Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians,… — Anton Corbijn 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
A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
“Noa sleeps with the curtains open, allowing as much moonlight as possible to flood her bedroom, allowing her to see each and… — Menna van Praag Copy Share Image
“Mothers are artists, in their way, wouldn’t you say? They’re like symphony conductors of entire lives. They’re painters or sculptors. And not… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
“If you're an artist, always keep at it, there will be someone out there who sees the universe and soul in what… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.” — Angelica Kauffman Copy Share Image
