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Painter Quotes by Pablo Picasso
- 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…
- In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
- As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A…
- What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On…
- It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter…
- Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's…
- Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every…
- There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us...
- Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger…
- And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
- Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
- What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a…
- I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green…
- The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
- What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
- To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not…
- My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.'…
- Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
- To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it…
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- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau
- Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. — J. G. Ballard
- The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. — Alton Brown
- There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne
- The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit… — G. H. Hardy
- Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? — Mark Twain
- The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter
- If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes