Painter Quotes

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I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green… — Pablo Picasso
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. — Pablo Picasso
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock… — John Dryden
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the… — Edvard Munch
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are… — Leonardo da Vinci
A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter… — Leonardo da Vinci
It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well. — Leonardo da Vinci
That painter who has no doubts will achieve little. — Leonardo da Vinci
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far… — Leonardo da Vinci
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator… — Leonardo da Vinci
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is,… — Vincent Van Gogh
The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to… — Bertrand Russell
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every… — Henri Matisse
What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see… — Henri Matisse
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... — Georgia O'Keeffe
I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures… — Georges Braque
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who… — Andre Malraux
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,… — John Ruskin

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