Bad friend Quote by Joseph Joubert

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection, should neither…

— Plutarch

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

— Gertrude Stein

“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because…

— Plato

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can…

— Oscar Wilde

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

— Peter Greenaway

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

— Joyce Maynard