Quotes on Painter

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

In my view, the composer,_x000D_ just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter,_x000D_ is in duty bound to serve Man, the people._x000D_ He must beautify life and defend it._x000D_ He must be a citizen first and foremost,_x000D_ so that his art might consciously extol human life_x000D_ and lead man to a radiant future.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.