Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.

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.

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

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.

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.

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.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

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

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

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.