Painter Quotes - Page 27

• A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

  Socrates

  Art, Children, Distance

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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• I have met a lot of the people who were stiffed by you and your businesses, Donald [Trump]. I've met dishwashers, painters, architects, glass installers, marble installers, drapery installers, like my dad was, who you refused to pay when they finished the work that you asked them to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dad, Glasses, People

  "Clinton And Trump Clash In Tense First Presidential Debate". www.npr.org. September 26, 2016.

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• I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

  Black Francis

  Attitude, Different, Shy

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

  Black Francis

  Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.

  Mordicai Gerstein

  Thinking, Experts, Painting

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

  John Lithgow

  Serious, Painting, Talent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.

  Paula Scher

  Different, Designer, Different Things

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.

  Paula Scher

  People, Design, Different

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

  Paula Scher

  Clients, Projects

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring the painting for some time, and then realized that in addition to feeling moved by the beauty of the painting, I felt a little jealous of the painter.

  Liza Campbell

  Art, Taken, Jealous

  Source: newwest.net

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• I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

  Liza Campbell

  Silly, Book, School

  Source: newwest.net

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• The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.

  Roger Housden

  Humble, Humility, Long

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

  Cary Elwes

  Father, Real, Kids

  "Cary Elwes: Battle Of Wits". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. November 18, 2016.

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• I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in progressive politics. And so I had a lot of artists and musicians in my home. Lots of Latin music, folk, and jazz and blues, bluegrass-type of stuff. Painters and stuff like that.

  Jack Waters

  Latin, Home, Artist

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Tired, Careers, Knows

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Art, Father, Things In Life

  Source: observer.com

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• For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Art, Years, Painting

  Source: observer.com

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• If you can create a reality that is entirely fictitious, it doesn't owe anything to this stuff out here, but you interact with it on your own terms. I mean, if you took it to the point where finally you get, say, tactile feedback, so you were wired in in terms of the whole nervous system. The sensorium. You would have the ultimate art form. I mean, any painter would want it, any filmmaker would want access to it you know, any musician would want access to it. It would eliminate the need for the divisions between what we describe as the arts, converting the whole thing to experience.

  Jerry Garcia

  Art, Mean, Reality

  Source: medium.com

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• I think of me being a painter eventually.

  Syd Barrett

  Thinking, Think Of Me

  Source: sydbarrett.net

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• I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mother, Father, Circles

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• One of the things about Derek Jarman was that he was a painter who worked alone when he painted, but I firmly believe that one of the reasons he made films was for the company. He made filmmakers of all of us, that's the truth. I don't mean he necessarily made directors, but he made us filmmakers. Because we lived in a state of mutual responsibility for what we made.

  Tilda Swinton

  Believe, Mean, Responsibility

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize. Pickman was a real painter who lived between 1888 and 1926. Now, there's a question mark [gesturing toward the writing in the margins of the painting], because Lovecraft claims that he turned into a ghoul. God knows how old he is now.

  Paul Laffoley

  Real, Writing, Ghouls

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Chinese, Technique

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

  Jackson Pollock

  Different, Modern, Source

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age find its own technique.

  Jackson Pollock

  Airplane, Past, Age

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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