“Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.” KnowsTurnsFreedomPoetClaimsDarePainterLicenseIndulgence Author:Horace
“When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.” NeedsFeelsSelfTurnsBlackWhiteDiscoverySelf DiscoveryPainterBlack And White Author:Barnett Newman
“He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.” ArtWould BeJoyTurnsNaturalPaintingDelightPainterCompulsion Author:Albrecht Durer
“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.” MaySchoolArtistTurnsTeacherTownsPainterCopiesHonourAbandonedImitation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.” TurnsPainterIdiotStaringCanvasIdioticBlank Canvas Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.” WayLittlesArtIdeasWould BeTurnsMoralVirtueProducePoetGeniusHolyMusicianInstrumentsNobleFoolishPainterEthicalAestheticVirtuousEmployedBarren Author:Arthur Schopenhauer