“Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.” KnowsMenWritingI CanPaintingDrivenDrawingSoftware Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto
“You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.” ThinkingMenTwoLastsArtistTalentPaintingPainterMuseBrushesTrios Author:Robert Breault
“It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.” MenWellsFacesArtistHe ManPaintingOne DayModelsPaintFeaturesCanvasPortraitsPortraiture Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.” MenHe ManPaintingCallingProfessionLandscapeMinistersAbandonLandscape Painting Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch
“I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.” ThinkingMenArtSometimesPaintingMembersDrawingBeing MeProceeding Author:Michelangelo
“What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.” MenWayI CanIdeasDifferentUseNextVisionObjectsColorPaintingElementsShadowCastsMy WayOriginalityFuse Author:Pablo Picasso
“Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.” MenDoeAbleFormOpinionPaintingJudgingListeningOughtFaultsRefuseJudgementPainting A Picture Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.” MenWellsActionPoorResultsFiguresProducePaintingMastersEmbraceFortuitous Book:Notebooks Source: Notebooks