“Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.” NaturalRocksPainterMannersSculptureObligedFoldsGarmentsSculptorsHardness Author:John Dryden
“Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.” ArtNaturalPaintingWarmStrikesPainterGenerosityFlexibleUncomplicated Book:The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
“A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.” MindArtMomentsNaturalPoetSentencesPainterHistorianImpressExhibitsDeficiencyOne Sentence Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.” ArtWould BeJoyTurnsNaturalPaintingDelightPainterCompulsion Author:Albrecht Durer
“In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.” FormNaturalPaintingSceneHarmonyUnitySakePainterLandscapeColourExaggeratedPrevailing Author:Walter J. Phillips
“The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.” IfsShouldFacesNaturalGonePaintPainterLandscapeFeaturesInsultLatterOccupationPortraitsPortraiturePresumptuous Author:Walter J. Phillips
“I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.” HardActorsNaturalDirectorsGardenAthletePainterPorchNatural Gifts Author:Paul Newman