Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. — Robert Breault
Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. — Grandma Moses
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a… — G. H. Hardy
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud
In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his… — Leonardo da Vinci
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. — Man Ray
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters… — Piet Mondrian
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. — Norman McLaren
One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of creativity. The only… — Rajneesh
Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by meditation. If somebody… — Rajneesh
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick,… — Rajneesh
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many dancers, many singers… — Rajneesh
Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas… — Rajneesh
A kiss from my mother made me a painter. — Benjamin West
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that… — Georges Braque
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. — Arshile Gorky
The good painter is the one who buries a color every day. — Roger Bissiere
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other… — Herwarth Walden

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