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To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish. — Pico Iyer

[New Mexico is] the only landscape . . . where Nature is as aesthetic as Art; the only landscape that can compete with the great painters. — Leo Stein

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring. — Larry Rivers

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance. — Paul Valery

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. — David Hockney

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. — P.J. Harvey

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. — Giorgio De Chirico

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy. — Samuel L. Jackson

The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion. — Ralph Allen

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it. — Stella McCartney

I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters, — Pete Hamill

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. — Edgar Alwin Payne

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. — Gerald Brenan

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to ... — James Elkins

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope

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

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. — John Dewey

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. — Joaquin Sorolla

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. — Rudolf Arnheim

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. — Horace

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. — Robert Genn

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive. — Wayne Coyne

Painters ... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds. — William Hazlitt

Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. — Edvard Munch

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) — Henri Rousseau

Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot. — Pablo Picasso

Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects — Dan Brown

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records. — Mark Kozelek

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student. — Paul Graham

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg

Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else? — Gregory Maguire

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

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. — Ben Okri

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them. — Larry Clark

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know. — Brice Marden

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. — Bob Ross

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs. — Joel Sternfeld

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts. — Joshua L. Goldberg

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. — Pierre Alechinsky

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. — Tina Weymouth

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. — Kenneth Clark

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues. — Don DeLillo

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable. — Robert Rauschenberg

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else. — Nigel Barker

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors. — Marcel Proust

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. — Dore Ashton

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. — Madeleine L'Engle

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

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 they're better than. — Laura Owens

Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are. — Lori Lesko

Doing brings happiness. T
oo much time for discussion - discord. — Theresa Sjoquist

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho

Fashion photographers are the new painters. — Peter Lindbergh

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? — Eva Marie Saint

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see. — Vincent Van Gogh

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator, — Tony Evans

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. — Howard Hodgkin

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians. — Anton Corbijn

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. — Pierre Bonnard

Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters. — Shriram Iyer

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. — Minoru Yamasaki

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage. — Lord Byron

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. — Paolo Veronese

If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you — Shannon Dermott

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? — Mark Twain

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. — Barnett Newman

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. — Horace

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. — Henry David Thoreau

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood. — Jessica Alba

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. — Berthe Morisot

Real painters grunt like Marlon Brando — Margaret Atwood

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. — Vincent Van Gogh

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella

Painters must speak through paint, not through words. — Hans Hofmann

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance? — Karen DeCrow

These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were. — John McLaughlin

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. — Barbara Kruger

Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. — Paul Graham

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego ... — Igor Babailov

the painter had no need for grammar.
words fell from his brushes
already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls