44 Quotes About Painters

To paint one must forget everything else. Where you live, who you know, what you eat, when to sleep. The landscape of the canvas becomes your only reality. The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

The painter folded back the heavy curtain, standing in the stream of light breaking through the damp thickness of the room. He paused, still holding the drape in his hand as he considered with suspicion that a world could exist outside the window.

Actors are not first creators. Painters, composers, sculptors, writers, create something from nothing. Actors create something from something. They are secondary creators.

Painter and reality! Both of these are changers! But the painter changes reality virtually; on the other hand, reality changes the painter really!

Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.

They’re all daubers, today’s painters; they’ve completely lost touch with the classical tradition, the subtle, noble craft of the old masters. They muddle along with no respect for the laws of anatomy, don’t even know how to glaze, never mix their own paint, use turpentine like water, and are ignorant of the secrets of grinding your own pigments, of fine linseed oil and the blowing of siccatives—no wonder there are no more great painters.

Oglądając prace jednego z moskiewskich fotografów, pomyślałem, że u nas liczni fotografowie zostali malarzami, a malarze fotografami. O ile to dobre dla fotografów, o tyle złe dla malarzy. Z wszystkich "-izmów" w sztuce najmniej godny jest fotografizm.

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.

the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.