Painter Quotes
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Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
Vincente Minnelli -
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
Wayne Thiebaud
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What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.
Barnett Newman -
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.
Jack White The White Stripes -
A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.
Wayne Thiebaud -
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
Michelangelo -
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
Odilon Redon -
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.
Jennifer Donnelly
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A painter is a choreographer of space.
Barnett Newman -
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
Diego Rivera -
A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
Auguste Renoir -
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
Claude Monet -
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor -
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
Mark Bradford
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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.
Vincent Price -
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
Antoni Tapies -
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet -
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.
Claude Monet -
If hand-drawn animation is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.
Hayao Miyazaki
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The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
Pablo Picasso -
I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
Willem de Kooning -
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
Salvador Dali