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  • I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

    Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.134, Macmillan
  • The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

    Ideas   Usual   Able  
  • There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.

  • I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

    "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Translation by Daphne Woodward, p. 265, 1963.
  • If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

    Art   Creative   Would Be  
    Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated
  • If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

    Cutting   Artist   House  
  • My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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 can't hear you".

    Ears   Schmucks   Said  
    "Fictional character: Barry". "Dinner for Schmucks", www.imdb.com. 2010.
  • I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

    Wish   Paint   Painter  
  • I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it very seriously. I really wanted to be a master painter. I didn't think I'd ever become a musician because I was so shy.

    Art   Children   Kids  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • 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 than a natural garment.

  • Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

    "The Bauhaus Proclamation April 1919" (1919)
  • Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

    Writing   Light   Color  
  • 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 down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

    Art   Wall   Fall  
  • The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

    Artist   Class   Together  
  • The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

    Stupidity   Lazy   Talent  
  • With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

  • Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.

    Space   Style   Use  
  • If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

    Success   Past   Squares  
    Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
  • The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

    Mark Rothko, Diane Waldman (1978). “Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: a retrospective”, Harry N. Abrams
  • The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

  • I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

    Thinking   Use   Painter  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

    Speak   Paint   Painter  
    "It ls.", No. 3, Winter-Spring 1959.
  • Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past.

    Past   Careers   Support  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having to demonstrate it.

  • Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

    Truth   Fire   Names  
    George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”
  • 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 and associate myself with works of art.

    "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.
  • A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.

    Art   Spring   Promise  
  • Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can arrive at any possible subjective position. This will abolish that pictorial and imaginative association pattern which has remained unsuperseded for centuries and which has been stamped upon our vision by great individual painters.

  • I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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