Painter Quotes
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.
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Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.
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Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.
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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.
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I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
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The successful painter is continually painting still life.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
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Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.
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Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.
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I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.
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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
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The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
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A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
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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.
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
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Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.
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As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.
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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.
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Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
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Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
