Painter Quotes - Page 22

• Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me and I'm pretty good at helping them get there. I think we all work together on some level, but for the most part, we're on our own.

  Ron White

  Thinking, Creative, Working Together

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Order, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1997). “The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates Between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941”, National Book Trust India

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• I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Thinking, Chance, Mediums

  Francis Bacon (1983). “フランシス・ベーコン”

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• One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

  Robert Morgan

  House, Isolation, County

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• You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

  Kenneth Clark

  Vanity, Ideas, Suffering

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• I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

  Lu Xun

  Spring, Vision, Mountain

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• Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

  Lord Byron

  Sausage, Bologna, Pope

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• Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

  John Locke

  Art, Memories, Practice

  John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.37

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• Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

  Kenneth Clark

  Style, Age, Kind

  "The Romantic Rebellion". Book by Kenneth Clark, Ch. 13: Degas, 1973.

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• The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.

  Peter Cook

  Eye, Ducks, Looks

  BBC British sketch comedy show "Not Only... But Also" ("At The Art Gallery", 1965), 1965-1970.

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• I think I'm built like a painter. I have friends who are painters and they reflect a similar psychological attitude towards their work. They don't know what's coming next, they just wait for the message, for orders to come and then off they go on their next project.

  John McLaughlin

  Attitude, Thinking, Order

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• I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

  David Ayer

  School, Fighting, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

  Brice Marden

  Believe, Abstract, Abstraction

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• You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or maybe you can nowadays. But it's an endeavor.

  Brice Marden

  Way, Dentist, Endeavor

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• I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.

  I. M. Pei

  Artist, Years, Cities

  Source: archtalks.com

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• If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why would he bother to make the film? The only explanation would be that it would be an act of masturbation. I think that every creator is looking for a receptor. He's looking for an audience. There are two parts of the equation: a creator and, necessarily, the receiver of the work. It's the same thing for a painter who wants his paintings to be seen.

  Michael Haneke

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

  Paul Feig

  People, Want, Dies

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Robots, Kind

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Eye, Hands

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Eye, Goal, Creative

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• When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

  Walter Mosley

  Crafts, Painting, Bunch

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Artist, Hands

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• Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

  Jo Walton

  Glasses, World, Landscape

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• For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

  Larry Clark

  Photography, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Way, Designer, Graphic

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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