Painter Quotes - Page 21

• We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, War, Thinking

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• I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.

  L. S. Lowry

  Simple, Men, Use

  In Mervyn Levy 'Paintings of L. S. Lowry' (1975) p. 11

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• Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.

  Laura Riding

  Art, Inspiration, Men

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• that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.

  Stacy Allison

  Sports, Climbing, Who I Am

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• The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

  Gertrude Stein

  Moving, Hopeful, Firsts

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Revenge, Rome, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.57, David M Gross

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• ... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Education, Art, Crowds

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• My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Fate

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• But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have
  on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.

  J. D. Salinger

  Pain, Doe, Earth

  "Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and
  say, "Here I am: compose me; or write me; or paint me"; and the job of the artist is to serve the work.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Jobs, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Joy, Looks, Bliss

  Orhan Pamuk (2002). “My Name is Red”, Vintage

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• Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

  Anne Sweeney

  Art, Growing Up, Struggle

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• I didn't know anything about film when I first started - I was a painter - but I [always] felt that sound was just as important as the picture. The sound, picture, and ideas have to marry. If an idea carries with it a mood, sound is critical to making that mood.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Important, Firsts

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. August 6, 2012.

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• I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

  Brice Marden

  Thinking, Saws, Hats

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of his time. And so was Rembrandt. And Francis Bacon was painting his time in London. He was a real mover, but he saw the insect in the rose. But yes, when I do a painting, I want to take the "I did this" out of it. That's why I started using chance, like the markings on the wood. I never wanted to compose.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Real, Ideas, Rose

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off. There is such silence that when you hold your breath you can hear your own heartbeat. Everything is so fresh that you have the sensation that the painters have merely retreated deeper into the dark and that they are looking at you.

  Werner Herzog

  Dark, Years, Silence

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.

  Chris Martin

  Sex, Talking, Massage

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing.

  John Currin

  Thinking, Artist, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

  Javier Bardem

  Thinking, Lazy, Wanted

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

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• I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take anything that's not necessarily going to be timeless. I want to get across what I feel and I just use the figure because I enjoy the figure.

  Jason Shawn Alexander

  Tattoo, People, Use

  "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.

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• I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor is such a rarity on earth. It's like making a living as a painter. So I look at different opportunities in the same way as Jack Nicholson, who said once, "Keep popping up in different holes. That's what you want to do: Just keep popping up in different holes." That made a lot of sense to me.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Believe, Opportunity, Way

  "Steve Guttenberg on Police Academy, Party Down, and turning down Sharknado". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2015.

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• I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the market. There seems to be no risk and once a painter gets a strategy, very little exploration. As a result, I stopped thinking about painting a long time ago. I prefer forms of art that are more market-resistant, more idea-based, more - for lack of a better word - risky.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Art, New York, Thinking

  "'This Flat-Screen World'". logger.believermag.com. May 18, 2014.

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• I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever feel like I'm cornered into one expression of creativity because I'm successful at making films or being an actor. I guess it's best to not paint yourself into that corner.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Creativity, Successful, Thinking

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• Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.

  Wim Wenders

  Photography, Art, Actors

  "Wim Wenders Looks Back at His Road Films With 'Portraits Along the Road' Retrospective". Interview with Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, collider.com. August 28, 2015.

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