Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming… — Clive Barker
He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a… — James Joyce
Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" "That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange." "Orange?" He seems unconvinced.… — Suzanne Collins
Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers,… — Ray Bradbury
If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture… — Henri Matisse
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. — Leopold Stokowski
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into… — Edgar Degas
Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the… — Ted Shawn
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey -… — Eleanor Perenyi
Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize… — Philip Guston
If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine… — Stuart Wilde
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's… — George Bernard Shaw
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's… — Florence Nightingale
The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how… — Leonardo da Vinci
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the… — Leonardo da Vinci
I was too practical to want to be a painter. — Paul Rand
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way. — Chris Jordan
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint. — Wayne Thiebaud
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out… — John Williams
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. — Aaron Huey

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