Painter Quotes

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The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter… — Vincent Van Gogh
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long… — Vincent Van Gogh
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the… — Paul Gauguin
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model... — Paul Gauguin
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin
Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore? — Randall Jarrell
When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits,… — John Berger
By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me. — Claude Monet
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John… — Claude Monet
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays… — Auguste Rodin
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. — Sherwood Anderson
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man. — Jacob Bronowski
I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality. — Meher Baba
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. — Willem de Kooning
I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her;… — Joshua Reynolds
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the… — Joshua Reynolds
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according… — Joshua Reynolds
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like… — Joshua Reynolds
I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. — Martin Mull
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. — Robert Motherwell

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