Painter Quotes - Page 7

• What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Ideas, Trying

  Hélène Parmelin, Pablo Picasso (1965). “Picasso; the artist and his model: and other recent works”

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• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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• Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Life, Success, Peace

  "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.

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• A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Men, Mind

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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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• I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

  Grandma Moses

  Life, Positive, Work

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Thankful, Atheist, Worst Moments

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Dance, Art

  "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

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• The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.

  Roger Bissiere

  Color

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• You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

  Faith Ringgold

  Art, Writing, Waiting

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

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• The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Giving, Feelings

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Art

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• At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Space, Design, Events

  "The American Action Painter," Art News, Dec. 1952

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• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Paint, Cubism

  Pablo Picasso (2001). “Picasso érotique”, Prestel Pub

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• To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Greatness, Musician, Poet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “Essays and Studies”, p.59, Chatto & Windus

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• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Philosophical, Reality

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