Painters Quotes

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

Sun, Others, Yellow

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.
Vincent Van Gogh

Nature, Important, Feeling

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

Eyes, Put, Order

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.
Carl Sandburg

Long, Black, Seen

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

Thousand, Painter, Ought

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.
Billy Joel

Life, Around, Artist

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.
Edward Hopper

Great, Emotions, Force

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.
Brian Eno

Music, Great, Art

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.
Nick Cave

Work, Art, Beautiful

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
David Hockney

Interested, Extent

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.
Jackson Pollock

Work, Today, Different

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.
Madeleine L'Engle

Work, Great, Art

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.
Sylvester Stallone

Best, Regret, Regrets

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.
Twyla Tharp

Dance, Activities, Composers

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.
Chuck Close

Work, Experience, Thought

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann

Words, Through, Speak

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.
Lewis Thomas

Music, Human, Cannot

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

Art, Idea, Themselves

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.
Christopher Meloni

Love, Art, Mistakes

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.
J. J. Abrams

Time, Society, Long

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
Alfred Sisley

Nature, Strong, Feeling

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.
Arthur Smith

Passion, Rather, Four

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
Alexander McCall Smith

Pictures, Paint, Bleak

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
Minoru Yamasaki

Work, Rather, Buildings

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

Nature, Biggest, Workers

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.
Josef Albers

Father, Parents, Theatre

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

Young, Youth, Ahead

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.
Mark Rothko

Long, Matter, Among

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
Roy Lichtenstein

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.
Robert Delaunay

Problem, Moment, Research

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