Painters Quotes

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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
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
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
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see… — Ciaran Carson
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young… — Ilya Ehrenburg
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the… — George Grosz
I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me… — Lenny Breau
Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found… — W G Sebald
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. — Berthe Morisot
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature. — Alfred Sisley
Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art. — Richard Wollheim
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. — Lorenz Hart
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt
All my life Iâ€™ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. Itâ€™s exactly as if Iâ€™d said, â€˜I… — Diana Vreeland
Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human. — Sam Francis
This theme of bigness â€” all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. — Michael Heizer

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