The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
kar. a. bek. i. an (n. ); (from Rabo Karabekian, U. S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.
It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
I'm more of a house painter. That's the way I work.
I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. If we were born to paint, it’s our job to become a painter. If we were born to raise and nurture children, it’s our job to become a mother. If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.
A kiss from my mother made me a painter.
The modern painter…is an excellent couturier
When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.
The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.
Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.
For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.
I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what they see. They want to record the visual world in their own, distinctive ways. We could call it "attention to detail," which also makes a good carpenter, for instance. To be what Emerson called the "transparent eyeball" (which is a phrase that makes me a little queasy) is a noble quest, I feel. It's a quest for honesty, and as Frost put it, a momentary stay against confusion. If I had more talent and courage, I would still love to be a painter.
There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.