Painter Quotes

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Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness… — Celia Thaxter
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. — Steven Saylor
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. — William Butler Yeats
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower,… — Henry Van Dyke
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of… — George Ellwanger
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. — Gertrude Stein
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
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his… — Diego Rivera
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects… — Greg Kramer
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a… — Rose Kennedy
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of… — Simon McBurney
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters. — Francesco Albani
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. — Rudolf Arnheim
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas… — Emanuel Lasker
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A… — Pablo Picasso
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. — Andre Malraux
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts, from Nietzsche, Schopenhauer,… — Lebbeus Woods

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