Painter Quotes - Page 16

• I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.

  Wade Guyton

  Art, Father, Kids

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• Sometimes I seem to be two people. One who does not paint and one who does. The one who does not paint assumes that the one who does can paint anything. The one who is the painter sometimes finds it difficult to live up to that faith.

  Mary Pratt

  Faith, Two, People

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• Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun; when it's not, it's not fun at all. In either event, painting is always deeply fulfilling.

  Steven Whitney

  Fun, Thinking, Profound

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• Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.

  Steven Whitney

  Groups, Different, Faces

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• There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. This engagement is the necessary basis from which I plan new paintings.

  Jorg Immendorff

  Goal, Different, Engagement

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• Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.

  Nita Engle

  Motivation, Inspiration, Roof Over Your Head

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• Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shadow, Essentials, Degrees

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.236, Modern Library

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• The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Blessed, Wine, Blessing

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stupidity, Lazy, Talent

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• Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.

  Paul Hindemith

  Color, Long, Musician

  Paul Hindemith (1970). “The Craft of Musical Composition: Theory. English translation by Arthur Mendel”

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• The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beautiful, Math, Patterns

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

  Tony Curtis

  Opportunity, Careers, Able

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• Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Way, Surrealism

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

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• Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Writing, Paint, Get Up

  "Samuel L. Jackson Talks BIG GAME, Playing the President, THE BLOB Remake, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2015.

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• It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

  Erica Jong

  Girl, Mother, Art

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

  Sam Rockwell

  Editors, Magic

  "Seven Psychopaths Q&A: 10 Minutes in Heaven With Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell". Interview with Andy Greenwald, grantland.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Violin

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• I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Play, Acting

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.155

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• Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Ideas, Musician

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• An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acting, Actors, Lessons

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• Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Taken, Hands

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.142, Ravenio Books

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• Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

  Annie Dillard

  Hands, Painting, Chapters

  Annie Dillard (2009). “The Writing Life”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

  Honore de Balzac

  Silence, Mind, Facts

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• People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Weather, Long, People

  The Observer, August 07, 1966.

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• There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Effort, Excellence, Melancholy

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