Artist Quote by Robert Henri

“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?” The…

— Robert Henri

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a…

— Joni Mitchell

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic…

— Oscar Wilde

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

— Michelangelo

The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.

— Robert Henri

“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in…

— Susan Vreeland

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I…

— Steve Carell

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the…

— Carl Safina

History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

— Kenneth Noland

I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy…

— Neil Burger

Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he…

— Jack D. Schwager