Painter Quotes - Page 33

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Art, Ideas

  Attributed in "Artists and Aesthetics in Spain" by Ann Livermore, (p. 154), 1988.

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• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Mean, Blow

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• Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Sculpture

  Pablo Picasso, Anatoli Podoksik (1996). “Pablo Picasso: the creative eye (from 1881 to 1914)”, Parkstone Press

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• They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eye, Artist, Order

  Neil Cox, Pablo Picasso, Deborah Povey (1995). “A Picasso bestiary”, Academy Editions Ltd

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• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

  Pablo Picasso

  Time, Zero, Children

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Insecurity

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• Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

  Plutarch

  Art, Poetry, Greek

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• Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Different, Matter

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

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Usual, Tools

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Architecture, Builder

  'Lectures on Architecture and Painting' (1853) 61, addenda

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• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Cities, Littles

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.122, John Ruskin

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• You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

  Jerry Saltz

  Sports, Blood, Taste

  "Has Money Ruined Art?". nymag.com. October 7, 2007.

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• I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

  Carl Sandburg

  Ties, Long, Black

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1983). “Ever the winds of chance”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

  Gus Van Sant

  Movie, Hunting, Actors

  Interview with Kimberly Gadette, www.oregonlive.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

  Gus Van Sant

  Trying, Film, Dramatic

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

  Jose Saramago

  Believe, Writing, Artist

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Art, Real, Expression

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• I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

  Mike Shinoda

  Mom, Kids, Artist

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• Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

  Grace Slick

  Singers, Paint, Used

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• In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

  Patti Smith

  Facts, Calling

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• The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Pain, Photographer

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.82, Macmillan

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• I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Regret, Artist, Thinking

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• I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Thinking, Actors

  "The Breakfast Wrap: Swift and Middleton to Meet, and Much, Much More". www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2013.

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• A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Eye, Creative

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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