Painter Quotes

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. John Burnside
Art Three Painting No Talent Had Talent Courses Always Whatsoever Different Wanted Loved Painter
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold. John Dyer
Great Great Deal First Become Sold Attracted Deal Where Decided Interest Them Painter Paintings Published Four
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. John French Sloan
Life Time Good Picture Energy Rich Painting Every Mine Hoping Good Picture Vitality More Inspired Unsatisfied He Leaves Condemned Which Again Working Painter Eager Start
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. John Ruskin
Nature Live Our Cities Architect Study Hills Him Understands Dome Send Little Should Painter
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. Joni Mitchell
Time Myself Sometimes Painting Busy Think Guard Desperately Eat Obsessive Because Forget Irresponsible Order Paint Painter Career Sleep
I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium. Jordan Bridges
You Photography Light Stage Think Medium Similar Color Share Feel Over Crafts Common Different Form Really Acting Painter Whole Film Switching Conscious Things Two
I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean? Jose James
Music Art You Think Other Would More Never Know Because Go Lot Art Forms Times Get Being Different Being Different Forms Mean Ask Sculptor Paid Paint Painter
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
Beautiful Art Will Fall Obligated Feels Without Making His Subjects Handsome Short Depict Flaws Who Painter
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar. Kami Garcia
Art Writing College Fine Fine Arts Similar Major Like Years Very Arts Painter Many Found
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand. Katherine Dunn
Good Style Situation Every Bit Him Boxer Matched Hand Closely Explicit Really Painter Specific
Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different types of skin, different landscapes. The mastery of that light is the obsession of most of my painter friends. Kehinde Wiley
Light Skin Painting Types Way Insider About Outside Glass Obsession Know Most Mastery Off Friends Oil Different Depiction Stained Landscapes Painter Unique Different Types
The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It doesn't get any better than that. Kehinde Wiley
Better First Overwhelming President States Ability Be The First Absolutely Than Get Any African-American Paint Painter United United States
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter. Kenneth Noland
Great Made Had Known Painter
I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it. Kenya Barris
You Creative Style Suited Say Topic Hopefully Would Find Cartoon Something Come Force Up Person Any May Just Want Anything Whether Place Working Your Moment Painter Creative Person File Away
It took a while for anyone to want to publish 'To Repel Ghosts.' I thought people would want to publish a three-hundred-and-fifty-page book about a dead painter, but they didn't. Kevin Young
Book People Thought Publish Took Ghosts Would About Dead Repel Want Anyone While Painter
Making the leap from Monsanto's business practices - whatever you may think of them - to the 'dangers' of GM foods is a mistake in logical reasoning. It is akin to saying landscape paintings are potentially evil because the painter was a serial killer. Kyle Hill
Saying You Business Mistake Logical Evil Whatever Think Monsanto Dangers Killer Potentially Foods Leap Because Practices Making May Them Landscape Reasoning Painter Paintings Serial
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Book Wonderful Reading Brooks About Century Painter Early Last Last Century
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well. LeRoy Neiman
Time You Better Think Backbone Draw Drawing Able Well Just Painter
I went to UCLA and studied studio art. I thought I was going to be a gallery painter, photographer, or ceramicist. Then, when I graduated, that didn't happen immediately. I didn't suddenly get solo shows in Chelsea, and I realized that is actually kind of difficult to break into. Lisa Hanawalt
Art Thought Difficult Immediately Solo Kind Photographer Studied Studio Chelsea Get Going Graduated Happen Break Gallery Realized Then Painter Shows Suddenly Actually
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. Lucian Freud
Own Think Everything Pleasure Must Entirely Sees He His Being Use Being There Painter
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. Lucian Freud
Only Point Excitement Private His Providing Very Model Should Painter Function Serve Starting Starting Point
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. Lucian Freud
Worth Picture Preserving Took About Could He Taken Feels Qualities Were His Model Person Which Really Painted Painter Twice Thinks
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. M. F. Husain
Folk Like Am Move Paint Painter
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath. M. F. Husain
Will Breath Remain Painter Last
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. Marcel Duchamp
Freedom Morning Every Because Go Office So-Called Want Wants Painter
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. Marcel Duchamp
First Beginning Adding Our Characteristic Distortion Some Color Simplified Abstraction Toward Since Terms Impressionist After Which Again Century Then Landscape Reason Painter
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