Painter Quotes
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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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I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
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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
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If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.
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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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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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I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.
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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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The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.
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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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Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.
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I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.
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You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
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The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
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A painter is someone who can't use words. His only escape is to be a seer.
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I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.
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From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
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There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.
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I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.
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The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
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I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.
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After the war 1918 etching became Kirchner's favorite medium. He attributed this to its responsiveness. 'Etchings', he wrote, 'develop in the first states the most immediate hieroglyphs. Rich in lively handwriting and rich in variety of motifs, the etchings are like a diary of the painter.'
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I see my pen as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
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I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.
