Affluence Quote by Walter J. Phillips

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

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at…

— Balthus

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

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

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly…

— Friedrich Schiller

Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to…

— Michelangelo

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work,…

— Jerry Saltz

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the…

— Eugene Delacroix

“Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted…

— Elizabeth Gaskell