Great Painter Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick,… — Rajneesh
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… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth,… — Carl Safina
I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasnâ€™t going wellâ€¦ He asked me to come to… — Morton Feldman
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't… — Ed McBain
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. — Claude Monet
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, â€œHow did I do it? — Robert Henri
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea. — Robert Henri
Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't… — Steve Carell
Michael Jordan didnâ€™t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didnâ€™t become a great painter because he dreamed… — Jack D. Schwager
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. — Michelangelo
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may… — Pablo Picasso
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only… — H P Lovecraft
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. — Vincente Minnelli
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter. — Kenneth Noland
There are people who lie like a great painter painting a masterpiece or a great author writing his or her greatest novel. If they find… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may… — Pablo Picasso

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