Painter Quotes

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The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding… — Walter J. Phillips
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in… — Walter J. Phillips
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with… — Walter J. Phillips
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He… — Walter J. Phillips
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. — Walter J. Phillips
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of… — Walter J. Phillips
The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture… — Walter J. Phillips
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that… — Walter J. Phillips
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips
I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted;… — Samuel Morse
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater. — Vincente Minnelli
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to… — Piet Mondrian
The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the… — John F. Carlson
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase:… — Gino Severini
The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a whole...… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter. — Pierre Alechinsky
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in… — Pierre Alechinsky
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. — Pierre Alechinsky
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not… — Pierre Alechinsky

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