Painters Quotes

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I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he… — James A. Baldwin
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,… — Oscar Wilde
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind… — Mark Rothko
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory… — Donald Barthelme
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far… — Dorothy Fields
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. — Bob Ross
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate… — Walter Gropius
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether… — Kerry James Marshall
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the… — Lynne Truss
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of… — Gavin Newsom
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be… — Chris Ofili
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the… — Guillaume Apollinaire
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella
As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that… — Gerhard Richter
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by… — Gerhard Richter
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I… — Roger Ebert
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make… — William Morris Hunt

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