Painter Quotes

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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion. — Albrecht Durer
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that… — Harold Rosenberg
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg
I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards,… — Philip Johnson
When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for… — Ad Reinhardt
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of… — Edward Weston
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have… — Edward Weston
It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their… — William Morris Hunt
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to… — Gary Zukav
The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged. — Pierre Bonnard
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be… — Pierre Bonnard
You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. — Jackson Pollock
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life. — Peter Cushing
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He… — Maurice Denis
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of… — Lucian Freud
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great… — Lucian Freud
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. — Lucian Freud

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