Top 1200 Painter Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
I think David Fincher should probably be an 18th Century Landscape painter because he has this temperament.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?
I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter?
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.
Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.
It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.
I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.
I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.
I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.
To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
