Painter Quotes - Page 39

• Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

  Eva Marie Saint

  Musician, Study, Masters

  "Film-makers fight to preserve films" by Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. October 3, 1995.

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• A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

  Keith Richards

  Silence, Musician, Paper

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2012

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• I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

  Christopher Meloni

  Art, Mistake, Choices

  "Christopher Meloni Preps for the Emmys". Interview with Ileane Rudolph, www.tvguide.com. August 22, 2006.

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• It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together at this place where a note hits your heart and your brain tells your finger where to go. It's an otherworldly thing, like when a painter gets the right combination of colors together.

  Slash

  Heart, Color, People

  "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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• If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I going to say, 'I'm not going to paint this woman's neck because people will think I just want to lick on necks?' Please! That's not what art is about.

  will.i.am

  Beautiful, Art, Thinking

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• I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

  Martin Mull

  Thinking, Artist, Important

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• I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

  Donald O'Connor

  Painting, I Can

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• I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20 years and the response I have to give them is that I still consider myself a student. The more pictures I've made in 20 years, the more I realize I really don't know. And I'm always looking for something or someone that I could learn from.  I tell the younger filmmakers, and the young students, that do it like painters used to do—that painters do—study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

  Martin Scorsese

  Years, Numbers, Giving

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• I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

  Cleo Moore

  Very Good

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• There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

  Joe Louis

  Practice, Dancer, Boxers

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I wouldn’t make it as a painter, a sculptor or a musician. I have tried, but only in private

  Finn Juhl

  Dream, Artist, Musician

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• I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

  Kirsty Hume

  Rolling, Balls, Remembered

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• I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

  Xander Berkeley

  Writing, Done, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.

  Paul Provenza

  Play, Dancer, Actors

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• With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Building, Architect, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

  Walter Gropius

  Artist, Class, Together

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• Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Baptists, Dublin

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4285, Delphi Classics

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• This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

  Albert Einstein

  Fashion, Pain, Philosopher

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Portraits, Oblivion

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.316, Penguin

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• More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pain, Writing, People

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• Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Pain, Thinking, Careers

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Pain, Appreciate

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Oscar Wilde

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• My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

  Anthony Doerr

  Sister In Law, Skills, Long

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

  Brendan Behan

  Children, Married

  "Happily unblessed" by Rose Shepherd, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2003.

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• For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

  Virginia Woolf

  Musician, Done, Film

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.175, Oxford University Press

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