Painter Quotes - Page 35

• Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

  James Rosenquist

  Memories, Painting, Remember

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• Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

  Gino Bartali

  Men, Purpose, Stories

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• Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

  Alexis Carrel

  Brother, Prayer, Men

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• Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.

  Celia Thaxter

  Happiness, Uplifting, Children

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

  Steven Saylor

  Distance, Details, Gazing

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• Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Men, His Love

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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• 'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.'
  'Yes, blind is just about what they are'

  Plato

  Reality, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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• We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower, and number the bones of every bird; but unless faith leads us to a deeper understanding, a more reverent comprehension of the significance of the universe, God can be no more pleased with our knowledge than the painter is pleased with the fly which touches his picture with its feelers, and sips the varnish from the surface, and dies without dreaming of the meaning, thought, feeling, embodied in the colors.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Faith, Dream, Stars

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Mind, Moments

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.86

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• Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Principles, May, Littles

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.52

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• An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists – in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Mind, Excellence

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.244

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• When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

  Barnett Newman

  Black And White, Discovery, Self

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• A painter is a choreographer of space.

  Barnett Newman

  Space, Choreographers

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• The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Boredom, Perfection

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• Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, People, Perfection

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• If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!

  Eugene Delacroix

  Different, Would Be, Actors

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• The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Memories, Drawing, Ideas

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• Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Illumination, Painting, Produce

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• I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Bridges, Mind, Painting

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• There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Men, Fire

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• To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Beautiful, Art, Lines

  "The Classical Landscape Paintings of J.M.W. Turner". Book by Dennis Hugh Halloran, p. 75, 1970.

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• Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

  Oriana Fallaci

  Portraits, Portraiture, Want

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• Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

  Corita Kent

  Children, Artist, Creating

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Painting, Good Work, Models

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• It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Clever, Canvas, Enough

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