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“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.”

World Should Looks Information Painting Painter Anxious

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.”

People Ifs Looks Ideas Whole Painter No Idea

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.”

Looks School Teacher Son Genius Paint Painter Apples My Son

Author:Charles Mingus

“If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.”

Ifs Looks Past Success Behinds Successful Miles Painter Squares Canvas

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.”

Ifs Should Looks Problem Able Progress Sight Painter Unseen Tiresome Work In Progress

Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.”

Looks Shows Fantasy Perfection Painter Magazines Imperfection Nazi Forbidden Sculptors Physique Pinup

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.”

Knows Looks Oil Painter Brushes Mixtures Methodology Palette

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.”

Way Want Giving Trying Firsts Looks Kind Reality Feet Painting Photography Painter Maps

Author:Peter Doig