Painter Quotes
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A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate.
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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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The successful painter is continually painting still life.
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The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.
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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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.
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Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.
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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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If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.
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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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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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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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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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A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
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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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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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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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Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
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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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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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Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
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I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
