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“I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.”

Wells Wish Paint Painter

Author:Jack Levine

“Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.”

People Trying Wells Refuse Painter Comparison

Author:Sigmar Polke

“Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.”

Firsts Wells Wanted Actors Saws Singers Painter Arabia Carpenter Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Michael Pitt

“With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.”

Wells Today Painter Palette Sounder

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“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

“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

“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

“The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination... but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed.”

Giving Wells Art Ideas Form Used Imagination Particular Reader Details Determined Painter Canvas Obliged

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.”

Wells Ideas Wish Memories Answers Masters Models Drawing Impression Painter Acquire Facility

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.”

Wells Able Artist Order Actors Successful Musician Painter All Time Being Successful Great Artist

Author:Lady Gaga

“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.”

Men Wells Said Study Style Draws Method Pity Pursue Painter Venice

Author:Giorgio Vasari

“Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.”

Want Wells Art Grace Poet Advantage Gold Wit Naked Painter Jewels Ornaments

Author:Alexander Pope