#painter

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#i #i do #ideal #ideal world #into

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 wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#arts #college #fine #fine arts #home mom

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#architect #authors #being #build #buildings

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. ↗

— Nick Cave

#art #beautiful #compliment #exchange #greatest

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

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist. ↗

— Agnes Varda

#hands #painter #tool

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

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#aspire #bowie #like #musician #painter

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#carpet #corner #down #each #hanging