Painter Quotes

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The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. — Lorenzo Ghiberti
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop. — Michelangelo
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt… — Michelangelo
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — PJ Harvey
Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature. — Vladimir Kramnik
This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically,… — Bernardo Bertolucci
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. — Gerald Brenan
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker. — Charles de Lint
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that… — Pablo Casals
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are… — Keith Floyd
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it,… — Isadora Duncan
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to… — Odilon Redon
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my… — David Coverdale
I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the… — J. D. Sedding
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things… — E E Cummings
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel.… — Stanley Kubrick
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is… — Pablo Picasso
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with… — Georges Braque

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