Painter Quotes

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I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a… — Irving Stone
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world… — Thomas Friedman
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and… — Aphra Behn
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and… — John Berger
...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect,… — Gregory Maguire
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. — Miguel de Cervantes
I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas… — Charles M. Schulz
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and… — Dorothy Parker
Who was that?â€ I whispered, as if the walls could hear me. They were lined with pictures, a few of which I recognized as being… — Amanda Hocking
I didnâ€™t know that painters and writers retired. Theyâ€™re like soldiers â€“ they just fade away. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot… — Suzanne Collins
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you,… — Vincent Price
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen,… — Virginia Woolf
Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth. She felt no pain. She saw no… — Michael Grant
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami
Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel… — Leo Tolstoy
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous,… — W G Sebald
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.… — Oscar Wilde

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