Painter Quotes

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Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
A poet is a painter of the soul. — Isaac D'Israeli
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all… — Leonardo da Vinci
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do. — Ernest Hemingway
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. — Anne Stevenson
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the… — Lynne Truss
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really… — Reynolds Price
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory… — Paul Cezanne
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of… — Gavin Newsom
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be… — Chris Ofili
When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter. — Jonathan Pryce
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the… — Guillaume Apollinaire
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people. — Dylan Lauren
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. — Gyorgy Ligeti

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