Painters Quotes

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We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. — Paolo Veronese
There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves… — Fernand Point
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be… — Tina Weymouth
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which,… — Robert Indiana
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his… — Diego Rivera
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters. — Unknown Author
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. — Rudolf Arnheim
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts, from Nietzsche, Schopenhauer,… — Lebbeus Woods
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. — Alberto Moravia
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as Paul Klee who… — Wynn Bullock
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas… — Sue Halpern
You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets… — Al Hirschfeld
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the… — Winston Churchill
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face,… — Plutarch
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. — Henry David Thoreau
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of… — Alexander Rodchenko
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Augustus William Hare
Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When… — Thomas Kinkade

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