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“I used to wish I would be a painter or a violinist, where maybe I wouldn't need to travel as much. Or maybe if I were a writer, I wouldn't need to travel as much. It's the travel that kind of killed me. And the hours. I always pictured if I were a painter you could make your own hours maybe... work after the kids were asleep.”

Ifs Needs Kind Would Be Kids Used Wish Hours Painter Violinist

Author:Kathy Baker

“Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.”

People Thinking Past Groups Painter

Author:Laura Owens

“I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.”

Want Stories Painting Universal Painter Justify Life Story

Author:Beth Orton

Painter Related Portraits Romney

Author:Wavy Gravy

“It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected way. Authors, composers and artists have tried - and here we've rounded up our favorite quotes that help to begin forming structure around such an unspoken universal force. Which are most meaningful to you? If you had to sum up the power of music and sound in one sentence, what would you say?"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."”

“Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!”

Light Darkness Appreciate Painter Perceive

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.”

People Way May Art Expression Direct Painter Canvas Strokes Precision

Author:Adrian Tomine

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

Source: Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist

“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

“My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.”

Art I Can School Remember Painting Mom High School My Mom Drawing Traditional Painter Gaps Graffiti Drawing And Painting

Author:Alec Monopoly

“If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.”

People Ifs Knows Want Long Values Term Who You Are Painter Long Term

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?”

Thinking Children Art Mother Asks Circumstances Painter Sane Horrific Art History

Author:Alyson Richman

“Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.”

Painter Communist

Author:Salvador Dali

“Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing; and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.”

Ifs Should Persons Made Body Hands Faces Space Painter Gestures Pointing Demonstration

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.”

“Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills.”

“Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.”

Giving Different Character Age Faces Expression Painter Your Face Complexion Bad Character Different Expressions

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.”

Ifs Way Trying Art Walks Teach And Love Painter Nature Love Love And Nature Beauty Everywhere

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.”

Should Looks Reality Past Artist Challenges Path Generations Modern Color Painter Imperfection Modern Life Brutality New Generation New Paths Didactic

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.”

World Believe Art I Believe Poor Teacher Very Good Painter Good Teacher

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.”

Want Humans Kind Has Beens Art Use Artist Language Strong Differences Mankind Essentials Weapons Art Is Universal Painter Human Life Propaganda Very Strong Universal Language Propagandist

Author:Diego Rivera

“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

“But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock-When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.”

Morning Air Painter Landscape Shock Autumn Sunny Mock Frost Crisps Haze Autumn Days Fodder

Book:Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems

Source: Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems

“Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.”

“The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.”

Book Film Culture Effects Painting Scene Musician Destruction Painter Artistic Filmmaker Giants Tape Burned Taliban Sculptors Infamous Afghan Vandalism Vcr

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.”

Past Quality Depends Amount Painter Carrie

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.”

Ideas Able Painter Unusual Usual

Author:Salvador Dali

“The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.”

Remember Creativity Color Painter Proportion Shocked

Author:Ralph Allen

“I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.”

Used Study Students Masters Painter Filmmaker Canvas Palette

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.”

Knows Years Matter Moments Easy Perfect Creative Expression Photography Musician Photographer Technique Painter Worthwhile Sculpture

Author:Paul Caponigro

“You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.”

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness

“We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.”

Ifs Want Writing Poet Politician Concerned Paint Singers Painter

Book:This Matter of Culture

Source: This Matter of Culture

“Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.”

People Humans Children Born Human Beings Watches Creativity Millions Creative Poet Creator Accepted Foolish Painter One In A Million

Author:Rajneesh

“When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.”

Novel Modern Honesty Movement Painting Notion Starting Enormous Painter Distinguished Playwright Bourgeois Baudelaire

Author:J. G. Ballard

“I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.”

People Writing Believe Littles Moments I Believe Morning Seeing Color Ought Picks Coffee Painter Odd Description Pens Gestures Desks Mist Fitting Noticing Morning Coffee

Author:Shirley Jackson

“I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.”

Thinking Art Matter Novel Particular Innovation Faults Inspired Experiments Painter Visuals Visual Art

Author:J. G. Ballard

“We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible.”

“No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.”

People Giving Bigs Artist Actors Names Genius Degrees Painter Knives Almighty Zeal Aptitude Sharp Knives

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”

Feelings Vision Paint Painter

Book:Picasso and his art

Source: Picasso and his art

“The painter strives and competes with nature.”

Strive Painter Strife Mother Nature

Book:Thoughts on Art and Life:

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:

“My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.”

Eye Generations Painting Conflict Roots Core Painter Classic Stem Editing Intrigue Caprice Competencies

Author:Billy Zane

“I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.”

Way Feels Art I Can Ends Beautiful Form Painter The End Of The Day Entertaining Beautiful Art

Author:Shailene Woodley

“My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the experience of working at an exciting art school also spills over into my studio work. I believe most artists are adept at juggling multiple responsibilities - whether it's work, teaching, caring for family members or attending to relationships - with their studio commitment.”

“I am not a juicy painter.”

Painter Juicy

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.”

Knows Mind Long Ideas Deals Effects Particular Materials Aim Senses Painter Architect Vague Aesthetics Vague Ideas

Book:On War

Source: On War

“When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.”

People Knows Feels Writing Kind Book Different Actors Studios Painter Different Peoples

Author:Gloria Vanderbilt

“By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.”

Mean Doe Art Imagination Produce Color Illusion Painter Employing

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.”

Made Born Poet Flower Lovers Musician Painter True Lovers

Book:An Island Garden

Source: An Island Garden

“It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.”

Ifs Trying Long Doe Jobs Artist Long Time Great Things Painter Good Art Good Artist

Author:Edward Lear

“Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.”

Want Two Doctors Trade Photographer Painter Frustrated Dentist

Author:Pablo Picasso

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