Painter Quotes

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Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face,… — Plutarch
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides,… — Leonardo da Vinci
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm… — Michael Jackson
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
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. — Henry David Thoreau
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say… — Steve Guttenberg
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if… — LeRoy Neiman
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of… — Alexander Rodchenko
If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter. — Hokusai
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter… — Michelangelo
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself. — Edgar Degas
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get… — Rod Taylor
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to… — Barry S. Strauss
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Augustus William Hare
Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When… — Thomas Kinkade
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness… — Aaron Scharf
Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors,… — Ralph Gibson

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