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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

“What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.”

Wish Understanding Poor Understood Trade Painter

Author:Pablo Picasso

“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

“I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.”

May Art Ideas Wish Worthy Profession Painter Remembered Niche Exalted

Author:Samuel Morse

“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.”

Ifs Shows Artist Wish Perfect Subjects Photography Absolutes Paint Photographer Painter Portraits Fidelity Old Days

Author:Aubrey Beardsley

“As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.”

Giving May Beautiful Wish Cases Figures Mark Painter Spoil

Author:Plutarch

“When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.”

Art Wish Numbers Emotion Events Painter

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert