Painter Quotes
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The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
Salvador Dali
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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.
William Hazlitt
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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.
Ed Askew
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I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.
Morton Feldman
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I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
Paul Gauguin
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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.
Martin Luther
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If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
Norman Spinrad
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As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.
Wanda Koop
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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.
Carolyn Kizer
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The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.
Ernst Gombrich
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My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much traditional art.
Alec Monopoly