Old Masters Quotes

27 quotes by 25 authors

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed… — James Joseph Sylvester
I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20… — Martin Scorsese
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead. — Carl Jung
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which… — Clement Greenberg
Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for… — Helen Frankenthaler
Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing… — Edgar Degas
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other… — Peg Bracken
Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as… — Gerhard Richter
In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters, while at the same… — Rudolph Ballentine
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas
I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons. — Howard Pyle
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. — Alan Watts
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right… — Robert Henri
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for… — Eugene Delacroix
Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only… — Thomas Eakins
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some… — Philip Guston
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of… — Walter J. Phillips
It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get… — E. J. Hughes

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