Painter Quotes - Page 40

• One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting.

  Frank Stella

  Stress, Important, Looks

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• Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind

  Bridget Riley

  Focus, Attention, Veils

  Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff, PaceWildenstein (Firm) (2004). “Bridget Riley: recent paintings : September 24-October 23, 2004”

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• But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

  Robert Rauschenberg

  New York, Fear, Mean

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• The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

  Mark Rothko

  Ideas, Obstacles, Clarity

  Mark Rothko, Diane Waldman (1978). “Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: a retrospective”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

  Willem de Kooning

  Ideas, Cezanne, Painting

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• The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

  Lorenzo Ghiberti

  Art, Philosophy, Medicine

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• I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

  Michelangelo

  Kind, Shops, Sculptors

  As quoted in "In Our Time : The Artist" (BBC Radio 4), March 28, 2002.

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• Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.

  Michelangelo

  Pride, Order, People

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• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  PJ Harvey

  Film, Poet, Makers

  "Interview PJ Harvey: 'I feel things deeply. I get angry, I shout at the TV, I feel sick'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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• Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Style, Signatures

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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• A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

  Luis Bunuel

  Essentials, Alive, World

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• Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

  Gerald Brenan

  Class, People, Special

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• Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

  Charles de Lint

  Beautiful, Musician, Poet

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.137, Macmillan

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• It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Ideas, Trying

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.15, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

  Pablo Casals

  Creativity, Hands, People

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• Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

  Keith Floyd

  Patience, Art, Food

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• The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, Dancer, Body

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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• The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.

  Odilon Redon

  Ideas, Clothes, Giving

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• When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

  David Coverdale

  Romantic, Teacher, Art

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• I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the greater part of our life's toil and moil will of a surety end, as the wise man predicted, in vanity and vexation of spirit, here is instant physical refreshment in the work the garden entails, and, in the end, our labor will be crowned with flowers.

  J. D. Sedding

  Life, Wise, Art

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• Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Girl, Flower

  "Forward to an Exhibit: II". Poem by E. E. Cummings, 1945.

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• Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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• I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Thinking, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.

  Pablo Picasso

  Heart, Eye, Artist

  "Picasso & Things".

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