Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

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

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

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

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.

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

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.

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.

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.

Era un pintor tan viejo que se le habían quedado calvos los pinceles. (He was such an old painter that his brushes had gone bald.)

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.

Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished making love?

Eyes speak. Eyes say the unsaid words. Eyes express feelings. Eyes convey emotions. Eyes are eloquent. Eyes are tender. Eyes are sensitive. Eyes are captivating. I can't help looking into eyes. I am always fascinated by eyes. If I were a painter then I would love to paint the eyes of the people I meet and come across.

He was still on his “two Van Goghs” point. He put his hand on the armrest of her chair. He said, “But the second Van Gogh is just a guy named Vincent. Vincent lived for thirty-seven years. Van Gogh only came to life after Vincent died. Same man, two people.

He wasn’t a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it.

For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.