Painter Quotes

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I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always… — Giorgio Morandi
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these… — Georg Baselitz
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like the painting experts… — Ray Comfort
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great… — Claude Monet
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why?… — Harry Crews
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much… — Elizabeth Bowen
Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these… — L. Ron Hubbard
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day… — Ursula K. Le Guin
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still… — Cindy Sherman
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. — Alfred Stieglitz
"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings.… — John Berger
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there,… — Anne Lamott
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to… — Albert Einstein
Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be… — James Madison
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.… — Lorenz Hart
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. — Leonardo da Vinci

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