Painter Quotes
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.
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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.
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.
The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.