Painter Quotes - Page 37

• Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Beauty, Luxury, People

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• Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Garden, Unhappy

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• Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Eye, Exercise, Garden

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• You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

  Ellen Barkin

  Cute, Daughter, Mother

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• The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Beer, House

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3472, Delphi Classics

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• It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience
  has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling
  within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength.
  We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians
  can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Sadness, Feelings

  George Eliot (1884). “George Eliot's Works”

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• If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Dumb, May, Painting

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.226, GENERAL PRESS

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• A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Attitude, Men

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1998). “Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519”, Konemann

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• After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Pain, Light

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• The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color

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• There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Color, Brain

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• Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Pain, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, University of Virginia Press

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• It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Science, Thinking

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• Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Technology, Experts, Computer

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• Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

  Grandma Moses

  Memories, Important, Busy

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• The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Beautiful, Math

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

  Man Ray

  Art, Our Society, Members

  Curtis L. Carter, Man Ray, Francis M. Naumann (1989). “Man Ray in America”

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• One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the grandchild. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Children, Abundance

  Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art”, p.205, 谷月社

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• Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of creativity. The only way to be one with the creator is to be in some moment of creativity, when you are lost. The potter is lost in making his pottery; the potter is lost while working on the wheel. The painter is lost while painting. The dancer is lost; there is no dancer, only the dance remains. Those are the peak moments, where you touch God, where God touches you.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Dancer, Potters

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• Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick, dizzy, something going berserk in your mind. You cannot go on looking at Picasso's painting long enough. You would like to get away, because the painting has not come from a silent being. It has come from a chaos. It is a by product of a nightmare. But ninety-nine percent art belongs to that category.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Ninety Nine

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• There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many dancers, many singers who created great art, but never moved to the third eye. And there have been mystics who have remained with the third eye, knowing their own inner beauty; it is so fulfilling that they thought they had arrived. Somebody is needed to tell you that there is still something more ahead; otherwise, in your ignorance, what you will do is almost unpredictable.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Ignorance

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• Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas its nightmares. Most of the paintings of the great painters like Paul Gaugin or Picasso are almost like vomit. They could not contain their agony and suffering - it was so much they threw it on the canvas to get relief. The real objective art is not a relief; it is not a sickness that you want to get rid of. It is a blissfulness that you want to share. And by sharing, it grows; you have more of it, the more it is shared.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Real, Creativity

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• The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Believe, Color

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• Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, Drawing, Sketching

  Melvin P. Lader, Arshile Gorky, Gerald Peters Gallery (1990). “Arshile Gorky: three decades of drawings”

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• Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.

  Herwarth Walden

  Art, Expression, Paint

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