Painter Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image “A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painter Painting Photographer Photography Poet Poetry
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary.… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill… — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
