44 Quotes About Painters

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!

'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished.'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.'Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see.

I believe creativity is a gift that chooses certain persons. Not all are born with this magic. Artists are gurus.When I was little, I always compared artists as the innovation of ancient witches and wizards, that instead of using magic wands or brooms, use brushes. Similar, but different in size.

Never I've felt more validated in my life that through art.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I like the process more than the outcome. I mean, the moments when I am busy painting. It makes me feel good about myself. It is like prayer. An ode to the Universe.

Beneath the nice book cover, camera angles, format of the page, size of the canvas, sound of the song – was someone with something to say.

I think of something I read about Sargent: how in portraiture, Sargent always looked for the animal in the sitter (a tendency that, once I knew to look for it, I saw everywhere in his work: in the long foxy noses and pointed ears of Sargent’s heiresses, in his rabbit-toothed intellectuals and leonine captains of industry, his plump, owl-faced children).

Every painting tells a story.