Painters Quotes

265 quotes by 204 authors

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors,… — Ralph Gibson
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors. — Marcel Proust
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. — John Dewey
Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see. — Vincent Van Gogh
Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate… — James Dean
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. — Winston Churchill
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of… — Van Day Truex
Painters used red like spice — Derek Jarman
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. — Richard Linklater
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and… — Marlene Dietrich
A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what… — Carlos Gavito
Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken… — Vincent Van Gogh
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way… — Aleksa Palladino
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a… — Martin Scorsese
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist… — Marlene Dumas
Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a… — Marlene Dumas
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.… — Ad Reinhardt
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. — Minoru Yamasaki
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance,… — Blaise Pascal

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