Always trying Quote by Pablo Picasso

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

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

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of…

— Oscar Wilde

I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can…

— Sylvester Stallone

It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something,…

— Mos Def

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

— Francis Bacon

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that…

— Joe Murray

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what…

— Paul Banks

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and…

— Domenico Gnoli