Quotes Tagged With :painter

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

I had spent many years living with a plain piece of canvas just right on my face as a headboard for my....

What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need....

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For....

I came there again another time. And I looked many times again. I was filled with consolation, with my....

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

To paint one must forget everything else. Where you live, who you know, what you eat, when to sleep.....

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I adore the elegance of botanical realism but I also can't help but dream of my very own neo-surrealistic....