Painter Quotes

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Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who… — Joshua Reynolds
From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter himself,… — Joshua Reynolds
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and… — Joshua Reynolds
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds
Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle… — Joshua Reynolds
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of… — Joshua Reynolds
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. — Barnett Newman
A painter is a choreographer of space. — Barnett Newman
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that,… — Eugene Delacroix
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment… — Eugene Delacroix
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for… — Eugene Delacroix
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext,… — Eugene Delacroix
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in… — Eugene Delacroix
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in… — J M W Turner
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want? — Oriana Fallaci
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to… — Corita Kent
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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