Artist Quote by Ernest Hemingway

My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be…

— Burton Silverman

Painting taught literature to describe.

— Orhan Pamuk

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

— Denis Diderot

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost…

— William S. Burroughs

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

— LeRoy Neiman

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

“So another thing is where the subjects are in a painting. What's that called?" "Composition. We learned it in art class.”

— Kathryn Shay

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly…

— Carolyn Kizer

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot,…

— Joshua Reynolds