Painter Quotes - Page 4

• I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Hair, Work Out

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• The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Eye, Yellow, Orange

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• I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By". Book by Mary Engelbreit, 1999.

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• Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

  John French Sloan

  Energy, Vitality, Painting

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• An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Art, Design

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3

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• I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.

  Piet Mondrian

  Spiritual, Art, Philosophy

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

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• If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Creative, Would Be

  Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated

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• "Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

  Horace

  Giving, Liberty, Poet

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• No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

  Paul Gauguin

  Crazy, People, Want

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

  Andy Warhol

  Fashion, Style, Reason

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Life, Adversity

  "Da Vinci Notebooks".

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• We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Eye, Perception, Vision

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• In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Art, Men, Order

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• Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

  Judy Chicago

  Morning, Women, Long

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• Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.

  Dorothea Tanning

  Movie, Stars, Eye

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• The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

  Norman Rockwell

  Life, Moving On, Travel

  "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 251), 1978.

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• There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

  Winslow Homer

  Art, Work, Way

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• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

  Robert Motherwell

  Life, Art, Important

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

  Frank Stella

  Life, Art, Giving

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• The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.

  Hilma af Klint

  Change, Art, Work

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• Choose only one master - Nature.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Choices

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.

  Victor Vasarely

  Color, Painting, Attributes

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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