Painter Quotes - Page 15

• The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

  Arthur Symons

  London, Canvas, Mist

  Arthur Symons (1998). “Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands”, p.162, Northwestern University Press

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• At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

  Jean Chretien

  Italian, Dollars, Boards

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

  Gunther Schuller

  Art, Interesting, Musical

  "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

  Al Pacino

  Order, Differences, Watches

  "New Again: Al Pacino". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Julian Schnabel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

  Lucian Freud

  Thinking, Half, Painting

  Interview with Martin Gayford, Independent on Sunday, May 26, 2002.

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• One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Hero, Artist, Feelings

  "Tool Leader Keenan Forms A Perfect Circle". Billboard, March 18, 2000.

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• I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Struggle, Reading, Writing

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• In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that one had to get inside it. In my opinion the two views can be reconciled in a poetic cognition of the world. But to the very fact that they appealed to the creative depths in the painter by awakening in him hidden forces which were intuitive and vitalizing, the Futurist theories did more than the Cubist principles to open up unexplored and boundless horizons.

  Gino Severini

  Views, Two, Creative

  "Letters of the great artists" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 248), 1963.

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• Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All subsequent movements were latent in them or brought about by them.. ..the two movements cannot be regarded as in opposition to each other, even though they started from opposite points; I maintain [an idea approved by Appolinaire and later by Matisse that they are two extremes of the same sign, tending to coincide at certain points which only the poetic instinct of the painter can discover: 'poetry' being the content and 'raison d'tre' of art.

  Gino Severini

  Art, Opposites, Ideas

  "Letters of the great artists" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (pp. 248-249), 1963.

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• My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club

  Kurt Schwitters

  Names, Nails, Clubs

  "Kurt Schwitters, I is Style". Book by Jean Arp, p. 151, January 15, 2000.

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• Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself - that is the concern of the individualist.

  Marsden Hartley

  Distance, Expression, Paris

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• Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

  Titian

  Art, Essence, Giving

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 71, 2002.

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• My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Lying, Light, Expression

  "Art of the 20th century, Part 1". Book by Karl Ruhrberg, p. 178, 2000.

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• Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be more luminous than the high-lights of our predecessors, and our pictures, next to those of the museums, will shine like blinding daylight, compared with deepest night. We conclude that painting cannot exist today without divisionism... ...Divisionism, for the modern painter, must be an innate complementariness which we declare to be essential and necessary.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Eye, Night, Museums

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• Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Thinking, Perspective, Abstract

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• Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Needs, Students, Painting

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• Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Giving, Spirit, Realism

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• When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way.

  Donald Lambert

  Artist, Color, Use

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• As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.

  Walter Keane

  War, Dirty, Hair

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• It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits!

  Paterson Ewen

  Perseverance, Canada, Quitting

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• My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm thinking more about the temporal aspect of photography, rather than the visual.

  James Nares

  Photography, Thinking, Differences

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• I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.

  Milton Resnick

  Artist, Individuality, Followers

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• Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter's craft... history will determine how successful I have been.

  Nelson Shanks

  Successful, Unique, Light

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• The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Artist, Transition, Lines

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• As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

  Wanda Koop

  Photography, Form, Notes

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