Painter Quotes - Page 19

• For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

  Michel Eugene Chevreul

  Painting, Methodology, Flats

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• Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Musician, Novelists, Hollywood

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• During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

  Karen DeCrow

  Art, School, Renaissance

  Karen DeCrow (1974). “Sexist justice”, Random House (NY)

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• If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

  Frederic Chopin

  Cutting, Artist, House

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  Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nursing, Nurse

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.291, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Trying, Doe, Looks

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• As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Ideas, Entertainment

  Quoted in Truth, Jan. 1890

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• Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.

  George Lucas

  Artist, Technology, Perspective

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mistake, People, Looks

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Artist, Musician, Poet

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.113, Library of America

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• Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my wife, she volunteers helping underprivileged kids, that's her art. To me, anything that you do that you truly believe in makes you an artist. It doesn't necessarily mean being a painter or a film maker. That's art, but there's more to it than that. As long as you're pouring your heart and soul into what you're doing, that's the weapon.

  Ray Toro

  Art, Believe, Mean

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• The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they all portray the break up of the self and, through the rearrangement and reassemble of the fragments, try to create new structures that possess wholeness, perfection, new meaning.

  Heinz Kohut

  Self, Perfection, Trying

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• Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative manifestation in form and color. With that in mind, it might be suggested that the visual artist, - from commercial designer to fine art painter - has much to do with most things that enter your everyday visuals, and thus form a major portion of one's reality and, certainly, how this culture manifests and evolves.

  Robert Venosa

  Art, Reality, Color

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• My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Want, Sin, Paint

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• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  Kami Garcia

  Art, Writing, College

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• Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Brother, Environmental, Looks

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• I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

  Aaron Huey

  Abstract, Pops, Expressionism

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• It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

  Arne Glimcher

  Summer, Interest

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

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• The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

  Laura Gilpin

  Doe, Different, Way

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• If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.

  Bill Watterson

  Taken, Museums, Drawing

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• Even the wisest man grows tense
  With some sort of violence
  Before he can accomplish fate,
  Know his work or choose his mate.
  
  Poet and sculptor, do the work,
  Nor let the modish painter shirk

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Art, Fate

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
  Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
  And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
  I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Phoenix, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.127, Wordsworth Editions

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• Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

  Albert Camus

  Faith, Stars, Luck

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• Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

  Walter Gropius

  Character, Spirit, Building

  "The Bauhaus Proclamation April 1919" (1919)

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• King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.

  Horace Walpole

  Religious, Kings, Husband

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