Painter Quotes

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The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain… — James Whistler
What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my… — D. H. Lawrence
The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught… — Winston Churchill
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places… — Christopher Pearse Cranch
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds. — William Hazlitt
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him. — Leonardo da Vinci
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do… — Leonardo da Vinci
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and… — May Sarton
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... — Michelangelo
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. — Michelangelo
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every… — Pablo Picasso
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us... — Pablo Picasso
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger… — Pablo Picasso
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. — Pablo Picasso
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso
What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a… — Pablo Picasso

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