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“The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.”

Knows Trying Lines Emotion Color Scene Impression Painter Aesthetic Translate Simplify

Author:David Milne

“While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.”

Giving Emotion Subjects Style Inspire Praise Critics Painter Landscape Impulse Beholder

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”

Persons Emotion Painting Essentials Essence Painter Characteristics Portraiture

Author:Titian

“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 the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.”

Art Wish Numbers Emotion Events Painter

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.”

People Doe Art Passion Emotion Painting Painter Playwright

Author:Creed Bratton

“I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.”

Believe Force I Believe Emotion Records Masters Paint Intellect Mediums Painter Canvas Unwilling Belive

Book:Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context

Source: Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context

“You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.”

Hands White Emotion Hair Paint Painter Canvas Brushes Camels

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?”

Emotion Mines Painting Tests Finals Painter

Author:Franz Kline