Artist Quote by Howard Hodgkin

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can.

— Hilton Als

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 sit down…

— Albert Finney

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

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

Only bad writers think they're good.

— Harlan Coben

I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.

— Susanne Bier

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of…

— Leo Burnett

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such is seldom…

— Tom Robbins

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they…

— Stanley Kubrick

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

— Jessa Crispin