Painter Quotes

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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem… — Walter Darby Bannard
Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. — Robert Genn
I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is… — Robert Genn
The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our… — Robert Genn
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured… — Robert Genn
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before… — Richard Schmid
The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is… — Richard Schmid
As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down… — Richard Schmid
A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long… — Wayne Thiebaud
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and… — Mark Kostabi
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all… — E. J. Hughes
To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual. — Wolf Kahn
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush. — Jil Sander
A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army. — Orson Welles
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done… — Artemisia Gentileschi
When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to… — Frederick Lenz
I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas. — Kenny Florian
My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but… — David Salle
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was… — David Salle

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