Painters Quotes

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

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

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

What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face could be born.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!

E.A. Bucchianeri

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.