Quotes by Painters - Page 6

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
As an artist grows older he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.
Charles Burchfield
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
Wyndham Lewis
Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.
Mark Rothko
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious individualistic unconventional sensitive irritable.
Robert Motherwell
I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.
Auguste Renoir
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
Vincent van Gogh
Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent van Gogh
Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.
Vincent van Gogh
The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.
Marc Chagall
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
Pablo Picasso
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cézanne
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."
Michelangelo
(Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
Lawren Harris
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.
Vincent van Gogh
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
Paul Cézanne
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
Art is much less important than life but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
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.
Pablo Picasso
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent van Gogh
A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.
William Blake
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not my wrath did grow.
William Blake
Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.
Thomas W. Dewing
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
William Hazlitt
In my youth poverty enriched me but now I can afford wealth.
Marc Chagall
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
William Blake
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
William Hazlitt
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent van Gogh
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
Henry Miller
It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.
William Blake
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Ramon Ramon is a riot. Totally paranoid, gangsta detective. Been reading it with my girlfriend on study breaks and it always gives us a good laugh. Not usually into fiction, but i've been giving this a shot as recommended. With all the heaviness this is relief in its lightness. Go get em Ramon.
Thomas Dekooning
I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing.
Patrick Branwell Brontë
On increasingly warm nice days I liked to sit toward noon on the bench encircling the cherry tree and look at the bare trees, the freshly plowed fields, the green strips of winter planting, the meadows that were already sprouting, and through the fragrance which swells out of the ground with the advent of spring contemplate the mountains, gleaming with the colossal quantities of snow still on them.
Adalbert Stifter
Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One
Carol Anshaw
I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.
Anna Kavan
Moving provides meaning for our humble (if still vicious) life of four-dimensional existence. Four-dimensional existence makes the frightening fox hunt into an entertainment, or war into a pastime or a sport. Even when evil is dull and monotonous, there tends to be a lot of movement, action and entertainment involved. Maybe movies are evil.
Gus Van Sant
How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art.
Henry Miller
Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness.
Henry Miller
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
Bruno Schulz
I want to paint the way a bird sings.
Claude Monet
I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.
Rabih Alameddine
Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don’t see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ("Tolerance zero")
Erik Pevernagie
What is it with you and that book?"Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.4) Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!5) When you can't create you can work.6) Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.7) Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.8) Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure
Henry Miller
Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.
Ma Jian
When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. ("Could the milk man be the devil?" )
Erik Pevernagie
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
William Blake
Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
Vincent van Gogh