Painter Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Photography, Artist, Perfect

  "Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography". Book by Matthew Sturgis, p. 189, 1999.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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