Painters Quotes

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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock… — John Dryden
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope
The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter… — Vincent Van Gogh
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the… — Paul Gauguin
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John… — Claude Monet
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. — Sherwood Anderson
I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her;… — Joshua Reynolds
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the… — Joshua Reynolds
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting… — Paul Theroux
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the… — Paul Theroux
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. — John Constable
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. — Barnett Newman
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that,… — Eugene Delacroix
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment… — Eugene Delacroix
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to… — Corita Kent

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