Great Painter Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to…
— Morton Feldman
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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
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
— Claude Monet
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A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?
— Robert Henri
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The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.
— Robert Henri
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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
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Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed…
— Jack D. Schwager
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Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
— Michelangelo
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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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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
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Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
— Vincente Minnelli
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Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.
— Kenneth Noland
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Great Painter Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Great Painter Quotes as follows: