Painter Quotes - Page 14

• I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.

  Samuel Morse

  Art, Ideas, Wish

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• Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things.

  Piet Mondrian

  Nature, Emotional, Inspire

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• The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

  John F. Carlson

  Stronger, Painting, Subtle

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• The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a whole... so that he may then execute it with warmth and as if the entire thing were done at the same time.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Thinking, Done, May

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• Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Action, Abstract, Immediate Action

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• No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Years, Fifty

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• Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

  Robert Genn

  Fool, Culture, Paint

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• The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

  Robert Genn

  Sight, Progress, Looks

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.21, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

  Robert Genn

  Jobs, Journey, Thinking

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• As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Forever, Vision

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• A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Long, Attention, Pay

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• If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

  E. J. Hughes

  Photography, Giving, Serious

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• To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

  Wolf Kahn

  Landscape, Individual

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• I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.

  Artemisia Gentileschi

  Men, Order, Drawing

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• I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.

  Kenny Florian

  Mma, Canvas, Excited

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• My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.

  David Salle

  Father, War, Sunday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.

  Joe Bradley

  Personality, Ironic, Want

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind.

  Charlie Day

  Jobs, Color, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and my paintings. There are, after all, more popular painters in this country.

  Georg Baselitz

  Country, Talking, Museums

  "My Paintings are Battles". Interview with Susanne Beyer, Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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• To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Past, Greek

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Eye, Gay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.36, Penguin

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• Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

  Henry George Bohn

  White, Black, Lawyer

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• I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Art, School, Fine

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.

  Amy Sillman

  Teacher, Art, Cheerleader

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• I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters, however, can never reproduce sunlight as it really is. I can only approach the truth of it.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Hate, Light, Darkness

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