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“I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.”

Men He Man Painting Calling Profession Landscape Ministers Abandon Landscape Painting

Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch

“It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.”

Thinking Firsts Painting Profession Painter Prostitution

Author:Ad Reinhardt

“The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.”

People World Conditions Painting Members Standards Medicine Paint Profession Association Pilots Airline Dentistry Airline Pilots

Author:Robert Genn

“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.”

Humans Stills I Can Different Age Certain Cases Painting Singing Capacity Tradition Dancing Profession Make Sense Human Capacity

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.”

Writing Painting Profession Hardest

Author:Anjelica Huston

“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.”

Knows Mean Stills Painting Paint Privilege Profession Obsession

Author:Alice Neel

“Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.”

Giving Mind Done Artist Talent Painting Pressure Profession Peace Of Mind Under Pressure

Author:Titian

“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.”

World Should Wells Looks Shows Reality Imagination Information Produce Taught Painting Profession Painter Comparison Poetic Anxious

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”

Giving Mind Persons Art Done Facts Artist Emotion Talent Painting Essentials Essence Difficulty Pressure Profession Painter Characteristics Peace Of Mind Disappointed Under Pressure

Author:Titian

“Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.”

Matter Artist Pay Painting Method Paint Profession What Matters

Author:Jim Rowe

“My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.”

Careers Painting Depends Bills Clinton Profession

Author:Nelson Shanks

“The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.”

Feels Artist Lines Painting Crosses Profession Painter Transition

Author:T. Allen Lawson

“In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.”

Ifs Men Needs Feels Writing Doe Matter Painting Easier Comfortable Profession Dozen Urgent

Author:Malcolm Cowley