Painters Quotes

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The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have… — Emily Carr
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically,… — Nathalie Sarraute
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because… — Billy Childish
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all… — Josef Albers
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are… — Robert Delaunay
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. — Howard Hodgkin
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experienceâ€¦ many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to… — Robert Adams
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer.… — Ken Adam
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can. — Jean-Jacques Annaud
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. — Horace
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn… — Horace
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my… — D. H. Lawrence
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds. — William Hazlitt
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and… — May Sarton
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... — Michelangelo
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us... — Pablo Picasso
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger… — Pablo Picasso
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso

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