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Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.


Kazimir Malevich

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GEORGE WOODCOCK They were very experimental painters for their time.
WILLIAM ANDRUS I was painting a lot after the war, influenced by automatic gestures and Pollock. But I knew there w...
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LARRY RIVERS There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, &#...
MARGRETHE II OF DENMARK Ive often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and g...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS I've often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many...
DAVID LYNCH Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beaut...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it bea...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Miners could afford to own one of these. They were little; they were made by village painters, and t...
MARTHA J. EGAN Only God Almighty makes painters
GODFREY KNELLER I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tong...
DON DELILLO Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters wor...
JACKSON POLLOCK I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in the...
JARED LETO I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
HANS HOFMANN At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that ...
BRIAN ENO Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
BERTHE MORISOT Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.
PROVERB Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, bes...
DONALD BARTHELME But painters are different, ... It's paint, paint, paint. It's a mania. But choreographers can't do ...
PAUL TAYLOR We have 30 to 40 painters, and the paperwork was just crazy,
TIM GRAY Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or...
ALICE MORSE EARLE All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
DAVID HOCKNEY I decided one day to put on my tutu and jump on the coffee table and sing Aretha Franklin songs for ...
PHILLIPA SOO Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?
HENRI MATISSE One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
FRANK STELLA Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters.
SHRIRAM IYER Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful complimen...
NICK CAVE I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of...
PABLO PICASSO There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of...
PABLO PICASSO Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were her...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all pai...
EDVARD MUNCH There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and t...
WILLIAM BLAKE Many of those founders were not only engineers but immigrants.
CARL GUARDINO Carlton, Sydney (1949-), painter and decorator. Those who argue that bestiality should be treated wi...
WILLIAM DONALDSON The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men pain...
EMILY CARR I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
ALFRED SISLEY Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE There are painters that can change the sun into a yellow blot, but there are others, that due to the...
PABLO PICASSO Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good
JOHN FOUNTAIN I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful c...
NICK CAVE You cannot paint the "Mona Lisa" by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change
BENNY BELLAMACINA Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?
EVA MARIE SAINT I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, ...
DOROTHY FIELDS I love the people who I paint with. We have a wonderful group in Richmond who are very fine painters...
DORIS TURNBAUGH The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it...
BALTHUS Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
PABLO PICASSO Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
PABLO PICASSO They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better...
PABLO PICASSO This group of painters had, from the 1870s on, gone to Europe. They brought impressionist styles bac...
ELIZABETH JOHNS I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much...
J. G. BALLARD We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style.
HENRI ROUSSEAU Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household tal...
RUDOLF ARNHEIM Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.&...
WALTER GROPIUS You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an...
SHANNON L. ALDER The house was as empty as a beer closet in a premises where painters have been at work.
MARK TWAIN I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work...
MINORU YAMASAKI The plague had by this time almost died out, so that the survivors, when they met together alive, re...
BENEVENUTO CELLINI There were no computers retrieved, but there were indications of equipment taken out, there were com...
FEDERICO OPINION How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring pa...
DUANE MICHALS Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a b...
JOHN CIARDI For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done befo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
PAUL CEZANNE My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.
ALICE WALKER I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
KURT VONNEGUT Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion ...
ROBERT BURTON Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their mo...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) We expect our media to lead and open doors for our young talents. As we need creative engineers, doc...
MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM No barricades or survivors were seen, but there was also no evidence of substantial explosion damage...
BEN HATFIELD You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know ...
PAULO COELHO The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imag...
LEWIS THOMAS She's the poet and writer in our family. We were always surrounded by artists, writers, painters and...
LUZ URDANETA There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.
PAUL GRAHAM How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same ...
PAUL PROVENZA The work we do is as demanding as any of the great painters because nothing that happens on the page...
WILL EISNER To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our ...
PICO IYER We were happy when we heard about the rebel attack but we were also worried. We want him kicked out ...
TOM ERDIMI It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling...
VINCENT VAN GOGH It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to... The feel...
VINCENT VAN GOGH My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in o...
HOWARD HODGKIN There were cracks everywhere, ... Some could be brushed away as cosmetic, but there were also cracks...
TARIQ KHAN Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrati...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.
CHINA MIéVILLE I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits pe...
MAGNUS SCHEVING If you're an artist, always keep at it, there will be someone out there who sees the universe and so...
JENNIFER MEGAN VARNADORE Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS Let the politicians, economists, business men and women ignore us the poets, writers, philosophers, ...
AVIJEET DAS I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things....
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