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Painters Quotes

Today we haven’t the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst Picture Quote #1

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead Picture Quote #1

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence Picture Quote #1

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift Picture Quote #1

For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting Picture Quote #1

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work Picture Quote #1

If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them! Picture Quote #1

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate Picture Quote #1

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it’s because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand Picture Quote #1

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I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother’s milk Picture Quote #1

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there’s been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly Picture Quote #1

The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I’d sculpt Picture Quote #1

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air Picture Quote #1

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form Picture Quote #1

Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much Picture Quote #1

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay Picture Quote #1

When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters Picture Quote #1

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves Picture Quote #1

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade Picture Quote #1

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to Picture Quote #1

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them Picture Quote #1

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A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I’m not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented Picture Quote #1

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology Picture Quote #1

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don’t know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn’t bother to do it Picture Quote #1

My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I’m sure. The difference is that I’m thinking more about the temporal aspect of photography, rather than the visual Picture Quote #1

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Today we haven’t the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst (Painters Quotes) What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead (Painters Quotes) Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence (Painters Quotes) I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift (Painters Quotes) For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world (Painters Quotes) 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 (Painters Quotes) 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 (Painters Quotes) I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting (Painters Quotes) It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work (Painters Quotes) If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them! (Painters Quotes) I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate (Painters Quotes) Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it’s because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand (Painters Quotes) I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother’s milk (Painters Quotes) I think that in the last twenty years or so, there’s been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly (Painters Quotes) The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I’d sculpt (Painters Quotes) I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air (Painters Quotes) Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form (Painters Quotes) Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much (Painters Quotes) As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay (Painters Quotes) When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters (Painters Quotes) The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves (Painters Quotes) Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade (Painters Quotes) Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to (Painters Quotes) To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them (Painters Quotes) A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I’m not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented (Painters Quotes) The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology (Painters Quotes) I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don’t know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn’t bother to do it (Painters Quotes) My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I’m sure. The difference is that I’m thinking more about the temporal aspect of photography, rather than the visual (Painters Quotes) Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality (Painters Quotes) 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 (Painters Quotes)

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