Quotes of: Painter Keyword

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

Underworld

If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you

Waiting for Mercy

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

Balthus

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Peter Brook

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Paul Cezanne

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Roy Lichtenstein

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Lucian Freud

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.

Mia Wasikowska

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.

Aleksa Palladino

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

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

Emanuel Steward

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

Franz Kline

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

George Clooney

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

G. H. Hardy

When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to paint is frustrating.

Galib Mammadov

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

Duane Michals

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

John Ruskin

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

Janet Evanovich