Painter Quotes

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The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work… — Philip Guston
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history,… — Philip Guston
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. — Howard Hodgkin
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein
My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like… — Charles Mingus
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in… — David Milne
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he… — Kazimir Malevich
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of… — Herbert Read
I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud… — Robert Rauschenberg
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling… — Alfred Sisley
The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas.… — Alfred Stieglitz
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling… — Jack White
When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in… — Giorgio Vasari
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model… — Giorgio Vasari
The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than… — Charles Saatchi
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. — Ben Okri
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have… — Josef Albers
The successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly… — Walter J. Phillips

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