Painter Quotes - Page 17

• The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Doors, Genius

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.171, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Feelings, Use, Gains

  "Jean Dubuffet, Works, writings Interviews". Book edited by Valerie da Costa and Fabrice Hergott; Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, p. 9, 2006.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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