#painter

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#being there #entirely #everything #his #must

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#ask #grow #him #himself #life

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#him #his #needs #obsession #painter

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #creative #difficult #ever #first

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#bad #bad choices #choices #grow #help

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#changes #cornell #county #ever #everybody

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#brushes #continue #etc #further #get

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#attention #behind #consciousness #focus #freedom

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. ↗

— Paul Klee

#am #color #happy #hour #i

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#function #his #model #only #painter