Painter Quotes · Page 53

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind…

— Joseph Joubert

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he…

— Lucian Freud

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

— Robert Baldwin Ross

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the…

— Sylvia Kristel

“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.”

— Salvador Dalí

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.

— Robert Henri

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

— PJ Harvey

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

— Cate Blanchett

He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty…

— Mike Leigh

I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to…

— John Constable

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

— Sergei Bongart

I'm a painter in sound.

— Brian Eno

No one ever gets to see Foley artists at work, and they're so strange. They see the world differently: things as things…

— Guy Maddin

“They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early…

— Hume Nisbet

Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

I have met a lot of the people who were stiffed by you and your businesses, Donald [Trump]. I've met dishwashers, painters,…

— Hillary Clinton

My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family…

— Alan Arkin

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

— Titian

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from…

— Jodie Foster

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on…

— Fernando Botero

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

— Edvard Munch