#painters

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

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#been #british #come #countryside #decades

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. ↗

— Berthe Morisot

#hand #painters #real #their #understand

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

Painters must speak through paint, not through words. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#paint #painters #speak #through #words

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ↗

— John Ciardi

#better #better idea #happens #idea #looking

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' ↗

— Albert Finney

#blank canvas #canvas #down #front #gregarious

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#art #avoided #change #expectations #fresh

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#painters #art