Best artist & painter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.”

Kind Long Art Film Artist Leader Generations Poet Painter Performing Novelists Makers San Francisco Playwright Nurturing Innovators Sculptors Performing Arts Performing Artist

Author:Gavin Newsom

“When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.”

Wanted School Artist Left Painter

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.”

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Author:Dylan Lauren

“My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.”

Artist Musician Painter Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.”

Littles Kids Wanted Artist Boxes Painter Boxing Little Kid

Author:Emanuel Steward

“So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.”

Trying Artist Building Architecture Painter Consistent Sculptors

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.”

Ifs Trying Heart Kind May Different Soul Faces Artist Example Painting Masters Perspective Hundred Claims All Kinds Painter Working It Display Masterpiece Heart And Soul Different Perspective

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.”

Persons Sometimes Play Artist Father Basketball Musician Painter Larry

Author:Larry Sanders

“I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.”

People World Way Mind Believe Art Important Artist Culture I Believe Poet Deeper Painter Dancer Etc Art World

Author:Thornton Willis

“A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.”

Art Artist Asks Grows Taste Obsession Painter Suitable

Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

“You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.”

Thinking Men Two Lasts Artist Talent Painting Painter Muse Brushes Trios

Author:Robert Breault

“The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.”

Men Should Reason Joy Artist Perfect Flower Masters Missions Accidents Painter Delusion No Reason Sentiments Puzzles Masterpiece Bud Philanthropist Alliteration

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.”

Sometimes Artist Painter

Author:Martin Mull

“A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.”

Men May Artist Term Painter Humiliating Imitator

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Knows Should Mind Art Artist Principles Taste Models Advantage Excellence Painter Assistance Good Art Good Artist

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.”

Children Together Artist Fit Creating Bread Painter

Book:Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit

Source: Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit

“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!”

People Real Seems Artist Sides Pay Position Lifetime Painter Honour Compliment Showers Real Friends

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.”

Has Beens Art Ideas Artist Freedom Personality Art Is Instinct Passionate Painter Works Of Art Sensations Restraint Caricatures Copying

Author:Maurice Denis

“Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.”

Wells Able Artist Order Actors Successful Musician Painter All Time Being Successful Great Artist

Author:Lady Gaga

“I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.”

Should Trying Artist Study Pieces Masters Structure Painter Artistic Just One Copies Squares Inches Execution Canvas Small Pieces Rubens

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.”

Mean Art Able Artist Creativity Technology Creating Painter Efficient Primitive Ingenious Famous Artist Creating New Things

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.”

Should Artist Understanding Greater Students Ambition Fellows Painter Homage Fickle

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.”

May School Artist Turns Teacher Towns Painter Copies Honour Abandoned Imitation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?”

Spiritual Artist Force Heaven Walks Vision Divine Genius Conscious Ears Paint Chosen Painter Vanity Landscape Unconscious Urges Angle Real Beauty Emulation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.”

Real Hands Artist Air Painting Becoming Studios Architecture Painter Lakes Rome Medieval Renaissance Tubes Fooled

Author:Mark Kostabi

“My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.”

World Ideas War Wanted Artist Certain Father Army Paint Photographer Oil Painter No Idea War Of The Worlds Sunday World War Ii World War I

Author:David Salle

“When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters.”

Artist Lost Modern Faults Technique Painter Expenses Sincerity Principal Strokes Preoccupation

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.”

World Feels Mean Important Form Artist Given Waiting Results This World Painting Various Surface Contemporary Painter Landscape Visible Productive Internals Stimulus

Author:Edward Betts

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.”

Humans Mean Doe Made Stills Artist Forever Poet Spring Instruments Chaos Painter Artistic Atmosphere Verses Idle

Author:William Dean Howells

“Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.”

Lasts Artist Grace Century Painter Feminine Elegant Delicacy

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought of the work of Cezanne and others as being a 'painted epistemology.' But Cezanne himself denied this and Daniel-Henri Kahnwiler, the art critic and art dealer, insisted that none of the many painters he had known had a philosophical culture.”

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Author:Semir Zeki

“Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.”

Artist Train Accidents Painter Competence

Author:Sergei Bongart

“Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?”

Artist Divine Masters Reputation Painter Architect Sculptors

Author:Michael Ayrton

“The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter.”

Ifs May Form Artist Lines Depends Demand Average Drawing Painter Artistic Realism Viewpoints Deviation

Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.”

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Author:Andre Malraux

“In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.”

Thinking Art Artist Subjects Achievement Musician Painter Architect Literary Art

Book:Facts and Comments

Source: Facts and Comments

“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.”

Ifs Shows Artist Wish Perfect Subjects Photography Absolutes Paint Photographer Painter Portraits Fidelity Old Days

Author:Aubrey Beardsley

“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.”

Art Wanted Artist Interesting Musical Painter Works Of Art Associates

Author:Gunther Schuller

“One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.”

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Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”

Giving Mind Persons Art Done Facts Artist Emotion Talent Painting Essentials Essence Difficulty Pressure Profession Painter Characteristics Peace Of Mind Disappointed Under Pressure

Author:Titian

“When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way.”

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Author:Donald Lambert

“I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.”

Knows World Action Artist Individuality Painter Abstract Hats Followers Admirer Monet Hats Off

Author:Milton Resnick

“The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.”

Feels Artist Lines Painting Crosses Profession Painter Transition

Author:T. Allen Lawson

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.”

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.”

Soul Artist Painting Painter

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”

Should Art Important Feelings Reality Artist Language Nature Art Is Painter Fine Arts Natural Environment Famous Artist Inspirational Artist Fine Artists Nature And Art

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.”

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.”

Thinking Long Important Would Be Artist Theory Long Time Authenticity Painter I've Learned

Author:Margot Fonteyn

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