Quotes about Painters

Painters used red like spice Votes: 3

Painters and poets have liberty to lie. Votes: 3

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild. Votes: 3

Painters must speak through paint, not through words. Votes: 3

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? Votes: 3

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. Votes: 3

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. Votes: 3

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. Votes: 3

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see. Votes: 3

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. Votes: 3

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. Votes: 3

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? Votes: 3

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. Votes: 3

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. Votes: 3

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know. Votes: 3

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to... Votes: 3

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg. Votes: 3

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records. Votes: 3

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically Votes: 3

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody. Votes: 3

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. Votes: 3

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody. Votes: 3

"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. Votes: 3

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing. Votes: 3

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak through paint not through words. Votes: 3

Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting. Votes: 3

Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen. Votes: 3

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind Votes: 3

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. Votes: 3

Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job. Votes: 3

Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left. Votes: 3

I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him. Votes: 3

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate. Votes: 3

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings Votes: 3

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings. Votes: 3

In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life. Votes: 3

Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or they would paint people of wealth, and they would try to show how they had power, and again, this is sort of spirit. Votes: 3

Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed. Votes: 3

Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy. Votes: 3

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs. Votes: 1

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. Votes: 1

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? Votes: 1

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature. Votes: 1

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. Votes: 1

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. Votes: 1

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. Votes: 1

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. Votes: 1

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. Votes: 1

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. Votes: 1

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. Votes: 1

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. Votes: 1

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. Votes: 1

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. Votes: 1

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. Votes: 1

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers. Votes: 1

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Votes: 1

Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. Votes: 1

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich. Votes: 1

People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair. Votes: 1

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else. Votes: 1

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. Votes: 1

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. Votes: 0

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. Votes: 0

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage. Votes: 0

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time. Votes: 0

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. Votes: 0

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. Votes: 0

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Votes: 0

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. Votes: 0

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive. Votes: 0

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. Votes: 0

Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters. Votes: 0

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can. Votes: 0

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. Votes: 0

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. Votes: 0

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. Votes: 0

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. Votes: 0

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. Votes: 0

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. Votes: 0

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. Votes: 0

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. Votes: 0

This theme of bigness "” all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. Votes: 0

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change Votes: 0

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. Votes: 0

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts. Votes: 0

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. Votes: 0

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. Votes: 0

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors. Votes: 0

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard. Votes: 0

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. Votes: 0

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. Votes: 0

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it. Votes: 0

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. Votes: 0

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, Votes: 0

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. Votes: 0

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. Votes: 0

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. Votes: 0

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. Votes: 0

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. Votes: 0

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. Votes: 0

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. Votes: 0

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. Votes: 0

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. Votes: 0

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. Votes: 0

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. Votes: 0

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego... Votes: 0

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. Votes: 0

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Votes: 0

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away. Votes: 0

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. Votes: 0

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. Votes: 0

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. Votes: 0

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. Votes: 0

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street. Votes: 0

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. Votes: 0

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... Votes: 0

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring. Votes: 0

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. Votes: 0

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes. Votes: 0

Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light! Votes: 0

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. Votes: 0

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. Votes: 0

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. Votes: 0

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? Votes: 0

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. Votes: 0

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. Votes: 0

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else. Votes: 0

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. Votes: 0

The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion. Votes: 0

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. Votes: 0

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. Votes: 0

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. Votes: 0

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood. Votes: 0

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. Votes: 0

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance? Votes: 0

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. Votes: 0

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) Votes: 0

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems. Votes: 0

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. I achieved that a long time ago with TV. I don't need any more. Votes: 0

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters. Votes: 0

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. Votes: 0

"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother." Votes: 0

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. Votes: 0

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. Votes: 0

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. Votes: 0

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us... Votes: 0

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring. Votes: 0

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker. Votes: 0

Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men. Votes: 0

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. Votes: 0

To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish. Votes: 0

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human. Votes: 0

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind. Votes: 0

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided. Votes: 0

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists? Votes: 0

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form? Votes: 0

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors. Votes: 0

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. Votes: 0

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. Votes: 0

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters. Votes: 0

My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas. Votes: 0

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions. Votes: 0

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day. Votes: 0

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade. Votes: 0

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them. Votes: 0

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play. Votes: 0

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than. Votes: 0

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. Votes: 0

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time. Votes: 0

The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine! Votes: 0

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper. Votes: 0

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature. Votes: 0

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment. Votes: 0

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks. Votes: 0

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. Votes: 0

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters. Votes: 0

How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances, Votes: 0

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives. Votes: 0

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life. Votes: 0

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. Votes: 0

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know. Votes: 0

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable Votes: 0

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. Votes: 0

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. Votes: 0

Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment. Votes: 0

It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques. Votes: 0

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired. Votes: 0

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today. Votes: 0

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness. Votes: 0

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there. Votes: 0

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. Votes: 0

While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting. Votes: 0

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. Votes: 0

Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters... Votes: 0

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles. Votes: 0

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems. Votes: 0

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence. Votes: 0

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die. Votes: 0

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun Votes: 0

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.' Votes: 0

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate. Votes: 0

Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst. Votes: 0

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country. Votes: 0

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history. Votes: 0

The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. Votes: 0

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm. Votes: 0

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano. Votes: 0

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound. Votes: 0

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn. Votes: 0

You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm. Votes: 0

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing. Votes: 0

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character. Votes: 0

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors. Votes: 0

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. Votes: 0

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass. Votes: 0

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly. Votes: 0

Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've finally reached the point when they can let go of al technique. Votes: 0

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. Votes: 0

When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to convey is the psychic light, which is around everyone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience"¦ many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint. Votes: 0

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess. Votes: 0

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. Votes: 0

The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger. Votes: 0

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. Votes: 0

The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else. Votes: 0

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour. Votes: 0

I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words. Votes: 0

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem. Votes: 0

The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. Votes: 0