Actors Quote by Eugene Delacroix

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think…

— Laura Owens

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

— Jeffrey Deitch

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their…

— John Frederick Boyes

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I was thinking…

— Vic Mensa

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors…

— Matthew Macfadyen

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

— William Hogarth

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

— Anonymous

The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to…

— John Constable

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer…

— Sam Francis

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

— Marina Abramovic