painter quotes

• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. (Pablo Picasso) [give/painter]
• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. (Edgar Degas) [painter]
• This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. (Albert Einstein) [painter/scientists/fashion]
• The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. ( Horace) [power/painter]
• 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. (Henri Matisse) [more/painter/forget/roses]
• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. (Pablo Picasso) [give/painter]
• Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. (Pablo Picasso) [painter]
• Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of. (Rainer Maria Rilke) [painter/artist/civilization & progress/moment]
• 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) [cities/painter/nature]
• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. (John Ruskin) [painter/painter]
• The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. (Susan Sontag) [painter]
• “I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.” (Franka Potente) [being/painter]
• The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me. (Anthony Quinn) [painter/think]
• Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies. (Tony Curtis) [painter/life/career]
• “I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.” (Cleo Moore) [painter]
• I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. (Kevin Costner) [master/painter/think]
• Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. (Jodie Foster) [painter/understanding]
• “Each week we're going to have a guest from the Italian-American community, whether it's an actor, or writer or painter, an athlete. And we're going to do a thing called 'What's Your Beef?' People call in and complain to us about potholes and government and whatever they want to complain about.” (Vincent Pastore) [painter/thing/people/government]
• I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. (Xander Berkeley) [painter]

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