Painters Quotes

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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg
I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards,… — Philip Johnson
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for… — Ad Reinhardt
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of… — Edward Weston
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have… — Edward Weston
It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their… — William Morris Hunt
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to… — Gary Zukav
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be… — Pierre Bonnard
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work… — Philip Guston
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history,… — Philip Guston
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he… — Kazimir Malevich
I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud… — Robert Rauschenberg
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling… — Alfred Sisley
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling… — Jack White
When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in… — Giorgio Vasari
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model… — Giorgio Vasari
The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than… — Charles Saatchi
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. — Ben Okri

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