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Painters used red like spice -- Derek Jarman
Painters and poets have liberty to lie. -- Robert Burns
Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild. -- William Blake
Painters must speak through paint, not through words. -- Hans Hofmann
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? -- Alexander McCall Smith
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. -- Eugene Delacroix
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. -- Horace
Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. -- Robert Genn
Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. -- Ben Okri
Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. -- Lorenz Hart
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? -- Eva Marie Saint
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. -- Kazimir Malevich
Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know. -- Brice Marden
Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to... -- James Elkins
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg. -- Sara Genn
Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records. -- Mark Kozelek
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
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
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically -- Marlene Dietrich
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody. -- Donald Barthelme
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. -- Horace
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody. -- Donald Barthelme
"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
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing. -- Paul Theroux
As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak through paint not through words. -- Hans Hofmann
Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting. -- Chris Martin
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen. -- Alice Morse Earle
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind -- Bridget Riley
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. -- Bridget Riley
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job. -- Paul Theroux
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
I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him. -- Susan Vreeland
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate. -- Helen Mirren
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
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
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life. -- Orhan Pamuk
Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or they would paint people of wealth, and they would try to show how they had power, and again, this is sort of spirit. -- Brian Froud
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
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
A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs. -- Joel Sternfeld
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. -- Frank Stella
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? -- Roy Lichtenstein
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature. -- Alfred Sisley
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. -- Paul Cezanne
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. -- Pablo Picasso
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. -- Edvard Munch
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. -- Pierre Bonnard
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. -- Pablo Picasso
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. -- John Ciardi
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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
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
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
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
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
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. -- Henry David Thoreau
Artists - 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
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich. -- Maya Angelou
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair. -- Cindy Sherman
The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else. -- Brian Eno
I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. -- Jared Leto
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. -- Bob Ross
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. -- Henry George Bohn
Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage. -- Lord Byron
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time. -- Gertrude Atherton
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. -- Berthe Morisot
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. -- Paolo Veronese
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. -- Winston Churchill
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. -- David Hockney
We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive. -- Wayne Coyne
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. -- Hans Arp
Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters. -- Shriram Iyer
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can. -- Jean-Jacques Annaud
Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. -- Jackson Pollock
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. -- Richard Linklater
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. -- Pablo Picasso
It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. -- Dore Ashton
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. -- Harold Rosenberg
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. -- Kenneth Clark
This theme of bigness "? all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. -- Michael Heizer
Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change -- Benny Bellamacina
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. -- Haruki Murakami
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. -- Paul Weller
And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors. -- Marcel Proust
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard. -- Peter Schjeldahl
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. -- Joaquin Sorolla
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. -- Pablo Picasso
Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it. -- Stella McCartney
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. -- Eugene Delacroix
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, -- PJ Harvey
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. -- P. J. Harvey
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. -- John Constable
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. -- Alberto Moravia
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. -- Mark Twain
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. -- Joshua Reynolds
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. -- Henry David Thoreau
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. -- Alexander Pope
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. -- Giorgio de Chirico
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. -- Minoru Yamasaki
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego... -- Igor Babailov
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. -- Pierre Alechinsky
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. -- Vincent Van Gogh
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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. -- Virginia Woolf
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. -- Robert Wyatt
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. -- Robert Wyatt
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. -- Edgar Alwin Payne
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street. -- Mason Cooley
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... -- Michelangelo
I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring. -- Lu Xun
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. -- Jamie Wyeth

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