I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. — John Constable Copy Share Image
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature. — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and… — Sam Francis 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
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
“Support all singers, musicians, photographers, dancers, painters, poets and writers. We don't fight wars. We spread love in the world.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and… — Andy Behrman 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
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough,… — Georg Baselitz 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
“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
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
These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego. — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso. — Anastasia Soare Copy Share Image
Just like the brush in the painters hand we have no idea where we are. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
