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.
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.
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?
Every good painter paints what he is.
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