Painters Quotes
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.
I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.
For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.
She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.
There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.
the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.
I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.
Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I’d be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.
The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.
The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.
The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
