Painter Quotes

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Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what… — Thomas Dreier
Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant… — Steven Pressfield
Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate… — James Dean
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red… — Richard Allen
It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing… — Wassily Kandinsky
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On… — Pablo Picasso
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. — Emil Nolde
There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel… — Peter Cushing
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. — Winston Churchill
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of… — Leonardo da Vinci
God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it's not likely that, like… — Gregory of Nazianzus
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of… — Van Day Truex
Painters used red like spice — Derek Jarman
The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and… — Swami Vivekananda
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the… — Swami Vivekananda
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before… — Claude Debussy
There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath. — Spalding Gray
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. — Richard Linklater
The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture… — Lucian Freud

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