“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.” FeelsMayI CanBeautifulWaterStudyGreaterSummerSeasonsWinterStudiosSpreadPainterRejoiceRecallsSmall ThingsDrop Of WaterFirmament Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch
“Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.” FirstsMayLittlesStillsPrinciplesStudyPaintingPainterColourGrounded Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait
“I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.” ShouldTryingArtistStudyPiecesMastersStructurePainterArtisticJust OneCopiesSquaresInchesExecutionCanvasSmall PiecesRubens Author:Kazimir Malevich
“When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies.” MenWellsSaidStudyStyleDrawsMethodPityPursuePainterVenice Author:Giorgio Vasari
“I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.” PhilosophyStudyReflectionProfessionPainterDilettantes Author:Antoni Tapies
“The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.” StudyInfluencePoetGloryPainterMutualIdleContests Author:Isaac D'Israeli
“The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.” StudyTalentIndustryUniversalStupidityPainterLazyRefugeBlindnessInfatuationVindictiveness Author:Charles Baudelaire
“I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.” ArtMovingAnimalStudyPositionChangedDrawsPainter Author:Rosa Bonheur
“If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.” IfsHardUsedStudyTakenPaintingOriginalsDrawingPainterUsed To BeGrantedMuseumsCartoonCartoonistTaken For Granted Author:Bill Watterson
“It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.” IfsWellsPersonsAbleAnimalPracticeStudyFailingOne ThingFiguresObjectsParticularGeniusHonorPainterLandscapeBranchesAcademy 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.” ThinkingGivingMindMaySeemsAbleBeautifulFacesOpportunityWatchesStudyGraceAirFiguresPleaseOffersFollowingAttractionPainterJudgementAcquirePossessedDeceivingSimilarityBeautiful Face Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“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.” UsedStudyStudentsMastersPainterFilmmakerCanvasPalette Author:Martin Scorsese