Painters Quotes

It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they've taken from the ground in the mining spirit without making or creating, and therefore anything that is creative they do not understand.

Theresa Sjoquist

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

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.

Ivan Eyre

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Winston Churchill

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

Jean Baptiste Corot

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

James McNeill Whistler

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent van Gogh

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

Georges Rouault

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

William Hazlitt

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

Peter Paul Rubens

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

Some day they will know what I mean.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

Lord Beaverbrook

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

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

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

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

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.

Ivan Eyre

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Winston Churchill

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

Jean Baptiste Corot

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

James McNeill Whistler

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent van Gogh

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

Georges Rouault

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

William Hazlitt

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

Peter Paul Rubens

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

Some day they will know what I mean.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

Lord Beaverbrook

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

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

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless

Luhraw

I came there again another time. And I looked many times again. I was filled with consolation, with my consolation.The thirty-three abominations were truthful. They were the truth. They were life. The sharp fragments of life, sharp, complete moments. Such are women. They have lovers.Each of these thirty-three (or how many of them were there?) had painted his mistress. Excellent! I grew used to myself being in their presence.Thirty-three mistresses! Thirty-three mistresses!And I was all of them and yet all were not me.I studied the abomination for a long while: before I modeled for them, as well as afterwards.I modelled in order to study. This I felt so keenly. It seemed to me that I was learning about life by pieces, by separate pieces, fragments, but every fragment possessed all its own complexity and power.The abominations began to divide in half. With every day this became clearer. One half became mistresses and the other half queens.Each of the thirty-three created his mistress or his queen.("Thirty Three Abominations")

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

Know everything. Say nothing.

Luhraw

To love is a natural instinct. To be loved is “something”. To be loved like crazy, like their life depends on you is a once-in-a-lifetime feeling. How many of us can keep their right hand on their heart and say that they have actually experienced something like that? Not many, I guess. Because you know what, once-in-a-lifetime moments, well, come once in a lifetime. You either have to extremely, enormously and tremendously lucky or have to manage to fascinate a poet or a painter or someone really very naïve or mentally unsound.

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

Luhraw