Painter Quotes

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The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others. — Emile Gruppe
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and… — Vita Sackville-West
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of… — Georges Clemenceau
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the… — Ellen Barkin
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. — Leonardo da Vinci
Painters and poets have liberty to lie. — Robert Burns
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he… — Leonardo da Vinci
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of… — Leonardo da Vinci
Color and I are one. I am a painter. — Paul Klee
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet. — Vincent Van Gogh
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform. — Paul Cezanne
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within,… — Caspar David Friedrich
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter… — Wilfred Trotter
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric S. Raymond
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn… — Horace

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