“I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.” I CanPaintPainter Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud
“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.” FeelsMayI CanBeautifulWaterStudyGreaterSummerSeasonsWinterStudiosSpreadPainterRejoiceRecallsSmall ThingsDrop Of WaterFirmament Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch
“It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.” KnowsI CanMatterStoriesEasyCan DoKnow HowFiguresDifficultyPaintBackgroundsPainterVentureRecommendationsRubens Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing
“I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.” ThinkingI CanJobsRecordsPaintingPainter Author:Robert Genn
“I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.” PeopleIfsMenWayMadeI CanSoulDoneTodayOrderFoundImagineParticularPaintingDrawingPainterVowSolemnBishopsCheatedPurgatory Author:Artemisia Gentileschi
“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon.” TryingI CanFactsHelpingWould BePastMy OwnAcceptingClaimsFoolishContemporaryPainterPhenomenon Author:Joseph Plaskett
“I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters, however, can never reproduce sunlight as it really is. I can only approach the truth of it.” SaidI CanEnoughLightHateDarknessPaintingApproachI HateAgreePainterSunlightMonet Author:Joaquin Sorolla
“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.” ShouldMadeStillsI CanFeelingsLyingMy OwnWhitePaintingSceneHorseGratefulPaintPainterInstanceTouchedStrongestAssociatesPencilsCarelessI Am GratefulBoyhoodWhite Horse Author:John Constable
“I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.” KnowsWritingStillsI CanReasonReadingSidesStrugglePagesVery GoodPainterDyslexiaPrintmaking Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.” I CanLightFormLyingCreativeTalentExpressionEssencePainterColourCreative PowerEssence Of Life Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy