Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else. — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you” — Shannon Dermott Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas 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
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
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true… — Francesco Albani Copy Share Image
To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be… — Pico Iyer 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
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
“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
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 was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer.… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
I think I'm built like a painter. I have friends who are painters and they reflect a similar psychological attitude towards their… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art. — Richard Wollheim Copy Share Image
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. — Tina Weymouth 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
“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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