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Painter Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines…
- Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
- "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…
- "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."
- Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter…
- Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the…
- I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in…
- The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
- The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in…
- The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
- As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not…
- 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…
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- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. — J. G. Ballard
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back.… — Lynda Barry
- Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full… — Charles Baudelaire
- The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. — Alton Brown
- I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should… — Nick Cave
- The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint,… — Nick Cave
- There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne
- A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne
- The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne