Painter Quotes
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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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Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.
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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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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.
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If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as 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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Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
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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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I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
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If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
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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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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand 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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A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
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Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking from your heart. That's something that's not easy to do, you set yourself up for all sorts of criticism or vulnerability but that's why we do it.
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.
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If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
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As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then 1958 Coup in Iraq, reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.”
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As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
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Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!
