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"No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder." »John Ruskin
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music." »Nikki Harris
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"A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen." »Paul Valery
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"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Faith--is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the scene that We do not." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured." »Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.
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"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." »Pablo Picasso
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"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous." »Auguste Renoir
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"Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast." »Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello"
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"The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity." »Edwin Markham
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"How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!" »William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
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"How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown" »William Shakespeare
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"The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived." »Elizabeth Jenkins
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"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science." »Albert Einstein
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"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things." »Leonardo Da Vinci
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"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." »John Adams
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"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is." »Henri Matisse
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"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident." »Vincent Canby
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"A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization." »Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
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"It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece." »Burton
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"A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day." »Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." »David Bailey
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." »David Bailey
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"Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*" »Bhartrihari
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"The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame." »Gertrude Stein
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"It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford
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"I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, 'You know what will save the world You're holding it in your hand.' And the other scientist looks, and in his hand are peanuts. Then when he looks up, the first scientist is being taken away to the insane asylum." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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