Best should & painting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?”

Should Painting Garden Setting Settings Remembered Painting A Picture

“In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.”

Should Opinion Effects Painting Approach Standards Excellent Proportion Relief

Author:Michelangelo

“Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.”

Ifs Should Mind Has Beens Youth Painting Stress Ruins Labour Distress Sculpture Good Faith

Author:Michelangelo

“When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?”

Should Artist Realizing Subjects Painting Photography Cameras Objectives Persist Lenses

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.”

Should Force Objects Painting Perspective Disappear Beholder

Book:Georges Braque

Source: Georges Braque

“I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.”

Should Stills Pleasure Painting Appreciate Discarded Time Goes By

Book:Monet

Source: Monet

“There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.”

Men Should Humans Doe Inspiration Beautiful Nature Human Beings Painting Models Appreciated

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.”

Should Believe Art I Believe Painting Uplifting Viewers Painting And Art

Author:Damien Hirst

“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)

“Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.”

Should Whole Reality Choices Given Painting Features Capture Realistic Realism Prominence

Author:Alain de Botton

“The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.”

Should Eye Painting Aim Likes

Author:Marion Milner

“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?”

Needs Should Art Soul Matter Spirit Desire Artist Wish Failing Painting Noble Your Soul Host Kindred Painting Art

Book:Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

Source: Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

“Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.”

Should Artist Games Heaven Common Attitude Painting Fairs Direct Grateful Forgiving Critics Dues Impression Remarks Pseudo Fair Game

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.”

Ifs Should Doe Would Be Care Mines Painting Masters Please Satisfaction Suits I Care Dealer Please Me

Author:Arshile Gorky

“Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.”

Should May Lasts Order Painting Elements Introducing Last Time Flexibility Flexible

Author:Richard Schmid

“Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.”

Should States Painting Battle Weapons Prepared Preparation Be Prepared Brushes Gears Readiness

Author:Richard Schmid

“Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.”

Ifs Want Should Whole Audience Painting Personality Versions Painter Sincere Ironic Drag Earnest Presenting Holistic

Author:Joe Bradley

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