Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to… — Robert Motherwell
Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints... — Joni Mitchell
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. — Joni Mitchell
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to… — Pope John Paul II
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter. — Robert Henri
I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. — Frank O'Hara
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting… — Paul Theroux
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the… — Paul Theroux
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine. — Paul Cezanne
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations.… — Paul Cezanne
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. — Paul Cezanne
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen. — Paul Cezanne
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it… — Ben Shahn
The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on… — Ben Shahn
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful. — John Constable
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light… — John Constable
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. — John Constable
Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in… — John Constable
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the… — Joshua Reynolds

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