#painter

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#did #get #how #i #life

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#book #brooks #century #early #i

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#consciously #create #did #discoverer #discovery

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. ↗

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#appearances #correctness #creates #fact #in fact

I am obsessed with the process of creation. ↗

— Zdzisław Beksiński

#painter #poland #polish #art

Beauty is in the mind, not the eye. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#beauty

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ↗

— Henry Moore

#about #his #job #mistake #needed

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become. ↗

— Al Pacino

#because #become #could #embody #enjoyed

Every good painter paints what he is. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#every #good #painter #paints

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#attention #duty #feel #look #make