#painter

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I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.


Dorothy Fields


#far #field #great #i #i do

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

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.


Rudolf Arnheim


#art #differ #good #good art #household

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.


Josef Albers


#also #builders #father #know #nonsense

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

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.


Georg Baselitz


#admire #artists #been #blonde #blonde hair

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.


Charles Baudelaire


#asks #because #better #catholicity #celebrated

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.


Arthur Boyd


#art #matter #out #painter #points

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.


Paul Cezanne


#himself #his #must #painter #paintings