Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

She [Eleanor Roosevelt]wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much more than she did with her life. And Eleanor Roosevelt decides she is going to do everything possible with her life. She's going to live a full life.

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

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

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to." But then within like an hour, they were like, "You're really a writer." "Yeah, I really am. I'm a writer, and a director, and a producer, and an actor, and a painter, and I do all that stuff in the Lush Life." It was great.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

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

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.

You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.

A painter of genius has a bovine mind. He does not think, he only sees.

As a kid I never knew what I wanted to be when I grow up, but the only thing I knew was that I wanted to create things. And then I wanted to be an astronaut. I would paint stars and the atmosphere and then frame and hang the universe up on my bedroom wall. A few years down the line while I was still stargazing, I came to realize that I’m halfway around the world chasing something and the whole time it’s in my backyard. From the very beginning I was who I always wanted to be.

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.