Painter Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Giving, Judging, Advice

  Pablo Picasso (1972*). “Picasso: 90 Drawings and Works in Colour”

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• What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Sides, Ridiculous

  Henry Fielding (1902). “The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams”

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• As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

  Plutarch

  Beautiful, Giving, Wish

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• The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Fall, Pride

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• Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Art, Self, Paper

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• When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Numbers, Wish

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beauty, Beautiful, Heart

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.61

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• Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Years, Age

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• I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Thinking, Artist, Long

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• The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

  Francois Delsarte

  Art, Acting, Genius

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• if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

  Pauline Kael

  Thinking, Trying, May

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Sex, Successful, Thinking

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• I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Art, Moving, Animal

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• One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Character, Interesting, Quality

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