69 Painters Quotes for You to Enjoy

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. Pablo Picasso

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When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important. Paul Weller

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I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function. Peter Gabriel

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I decided one day to put on my tutu and jump on the coffee table and sing Aretha Franklin songs for the painters that were painting the house. Phillipa Soo

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Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. Richard Linklater

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It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. Robert Delaunay

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Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation. Susan Vreeland

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Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose work contains more than you think it does at first glance. Whose work rewards, sustains attention and looking. Teju Cole

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Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there. Terry Teachout

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Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided. Tina Weymouth

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In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters. Tyler Cowen

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I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism. Will Sergeant

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How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs. William Morris Hunt

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You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before they move on to the next painting. Ari Shaffir

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso. Anastasia Soare

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