Painter Quotes - Page 32

• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Education, Math, Unique

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

  Josh Hartnett

  Careers, Acting, Kind

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• The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

  William Hazlitt

  Scholar

  William Hazlitt (1844). “Criticisms on Art”, p.11

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• Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Genius, Might

  "Damien Hirst: 'Anyone can be Rembrandt'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2009.

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• Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

  David Hockney

  Diploma, Painting, Asks

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• All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Certain

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• Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

  Hans Hofmann

  Speak, Paint

  "It ls.", No. 3, Winter-Spring 1959.

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• I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

  Edward Hopper

  Believe, Records, Emotion

  Edward Hopper, Adam D. Weinberg, Richard R. Brettell, Whitney Museum of American Art (1993). “Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context”

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• The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Vcr, Giants

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• I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Ideas, World

  "Trend to the Anti-Art: Targets and Flags". Newsweek 51 no. 13, p. 96, March 1958.

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• Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Pain, Color

  1914 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, entry 926.

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• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Creativity, Perfect

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

  Jared Leto

  Art, Children, Hippie

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• I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Thinking, People, Ridiculous

  "New Again: Roy Lichtenstein". Interview with David Bowie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2012.

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• A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

  David Lynch

  Hate, Thinking, Painting

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• As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

  David Lynch

  Father, Kids, House

  Interview With Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

  David Lynch

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Influence

  Interview With Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2007.

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• Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Giving, Aristocracy

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• The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

  Joyce Maynard

  Beautiful, Art, Fall

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• Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.

  Helen Mirren

  Hate, Thinking, Trying

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• Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

  Joni Mitchell

  Sleep, Thinking, Careers

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• The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

  Moby

  Men, Thinking, Renaissance

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• A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

  Grandma Moses

  Memories, Past, Brain

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• Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

  Edvard Munch

  People, Youth, Paint

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• I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

  Al Pacino

  Real, Scripts, Helping

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