Painters Quotes

Painters Quote of the day

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

Some day they will know what I mean.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I’d be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.

The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Glory is reserved for the twisted minds.

You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

Know everything. Say nothing.

The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.