Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
“Beneath the nice book cover, camera angles, format of the page, size of the canvas, sound of the song – was someone… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
“They are very large in effect, these painters; very little self-conscious; they have smooth broad spaces in their minds where I am… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York… — Will Sergeant Copy Share Image
“Hiring A Drywall Contractor in Portland Oregon You can check reviews from customers and find out as much as you can concerning… — Brian Erik Jamison Copy Share Image
My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci.… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
“I think of something I read about Sargent: how in portraiture, Sargent always looked for the animal in the sitter (a tendency… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the… — Jack White 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
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source.… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
“ 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create… — Jon Favreau Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“Great British painters, one might say, imitate the proverbial behaviour of buses. None come along for a century or more, then two… — Martin Gayford Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
