A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.
I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.
Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.
When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.