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“Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.”

Felt Color Painter Perceive

Author:Edvard Munch

“The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.”

Ifs Half Painter Companion Solitary

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night.”

Children Made Beautiful Night Figures Ugly Painter

Book:Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

Source: Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

“It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.”

Wells Able One Thing Painter Honour Competence

Book:A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art

Source: A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art

“That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.”

Littles Doubt Achieve Painter No Doubt

Book:Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer

Source: Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer

“O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.”

Art Care Greater Prove Gains Stronger Greed Take Care Riches Painter Incentives Renown Greater Things

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.”

Should Mind Mirrors Filled Painter

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.”

Ifs Way Doe Eye Choices Understanding Failing Subjects Mankind Creation Painting Poet Ears Satisfaction Wide Painter

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.”

Mind Wells Body Order Ought Solitude Painter Well Being Solitary Sap Draftsman

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.”

Ifs Knows Men Made Use Moving Know How Figures Ready Painter Orators

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.”

Want Shows Virtue Poet Skills Painter Zeal Gems

Book:Selected Poetry

Source: Selected Poetry

“The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.”

Thinking Seems Common Seeing Color Habit Common Sense Painter Unlearn

Book:The Problems of Philosophy

Source: The Problems of Philosophy

“All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.”

Earth Miles Painter Colour Palette

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.”

Should Personality Decided Painter Signatures

Author:Georges Braque

“Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.”

Persons Figures Poet Musician Painter Landscape Sunset Music Love Love Poetry Nightingales Musician Love Love Picture

Author:Andre Malraux

“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”

Ifs Humans Soul Earth Moving Spirit Animal Wonder Tree Figures Painting Flower Delight Painter Hills Landscape Limbs Fullness Human Soul Petals Figure Painting

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs”

Ifs Eye Mad Majority South Painter France Yellow Orange

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.”

Ifs Knows Certain Know How Painter Staring Insecurity Blank Canvas Imbecility Blank Canvas Staring At You

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

“I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.”

Thinking Believe Long Past Cases Progress Periods Painter Absurdity

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.”

Firsts Sun Thirds Painter Sequence Copying

Book:The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

“I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.”

Moral Depends Skills Models Possession Painter

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.”

Writing Form Poetry Special Painter Translations Something Special Illustration

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?”

World Needs Praise Painter

Author:Randall Jarrell

“When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint.”

Mean Matter Opportunity Challenges Subjects Style Materials Available Chosen Painter Conventions Restraint Subject Matter

Book:Sense of Sight

Source: Sense of Sight

“By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.”

Art Destiny Example Independence Painter Devoted My Destiny

Book:Claude Monet

Source: Claude Monet

“Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.”

Thinking Direct Instinct Singers Painter Sensations Impressionism Impressionists

Author:Claude Monet

“As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.”

Wells May Play Light Seems Please Shadow Resources Painter Relief Modesty Charming Sculpture Boldness Sculptors Paradoxical Etching

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists

“I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.”

Knows Men Writing Littles Knowledge Painting Painter Amazed Manufacturing Merchants

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.”

Men Mind Imagination Imagine Poet Scientist Painter Characteristics

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.”

People Heart Spirituality Color Painting Paint Painter

Author:Meher Baba

“If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.”

Ifs Needs Space Wonder Arms Fingers Painter

Book:De Kooning: A Retrospective

Source: De Kooning: A Retrospective

“I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.”

Sometimes Artist Painter

Author:Martin Mull

“For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.”

World Way Bits Offers Everyday Painter Abstract Collages Incorporating

Book:Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne

Source: Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne

“For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world.”

World Years Art Faces Steps Modern Objects Depends Elements Hundred Moved Leaving Painter Arrangements Hostility Monument Modernism Imitating Superb Incessant

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.”

Ifs Would Be Asks Felt Painting Response Paint Painter

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.”

Loneliness Lonely Paint Boxes Painter

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.”

Circumstances Profession Painter

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.”

Feels Whole Humanity Order Actors Talent Poet Waste Musician Obligation Painter Artistic Perceive Vocation Neighbour Sculptors

Author:Pope John Paul II

“A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.”

Should Expression Painter

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.”

Thinking Poetry Poet Painter

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“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.”

Art Natural Painting Warm Strikes Painter Generosity Flexible Uncomplicated

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

“Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job.”

People Way Jobs Rooms Lovers Paint Radio Naked Painter Soothing

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

“Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.”

Born Generations Mines Painter

Author:Paul Cezanne

“An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.”

Doe Light Half Sight Surface Impression Painter Tone Colour Sensations Organs

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.”

Giving Interest Vision Originals Painter Originality Representation

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.”

Painter

Author:Paul Cezanne

“It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.”

Form Painting Shapes Conversation Affair Painter Intimacy Back And Forth

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.”

Long Self Moving Journey Offers Painter Temporary Adequate Inner Self Pilgrimage High Points

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.”

Made Sound Water Scene Grateful Painter Posts Etc Rotten Escaping Mills I Am Grateful Dams Sound Of Water

Author:John Constable

“When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.”

Art Light Speak White Sun Materials Perfection Painter Shade Yellow Patents

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

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