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Tag Name "Painters" (226)

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Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.
Annie Dillard
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
William Hazlitt
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Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.
Sara Genn
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
Robert Burns
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
Robert Genn
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann
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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Horace
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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
Eugene Delacroix
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Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.
James Elkins
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Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.
Michelangelo
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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
Ben Okri
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Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
Alexander McCall Smith
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Painters used red like spice
Derek Jarman
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Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.
William Blake
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Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.
Susan Sontag
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Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Painters and poets, you say, have always had an equal license in bold invention. We know we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
Horace
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Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.
Lorenz Hart
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Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.
Diana Vreeland
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For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.
Domenico Gnoli
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The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.
Augustus John
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It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
Dore Ashton
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