A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
George Bernard Shaw
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
Gertrude Stein
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
Marc Chagall
I was a painter, perhaps, but I am not any longer a painter. I didn't paint for many, many years - but at least two or three decades.
Arnold Schoenberg
Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'
Peter Malkin
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
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollack
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her...I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James Whistler
I was just being active. Coach Painter always says to chase rebounds. I'm not a real athletic jumper, I guess you would say. That's what I have to do, boxing out and chasing.
Matt Kiefer
I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.
Cleo Moore
The writer dreams of being the sculptor of words and the painter of ideas.
Paul Carvel
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?
Peter Brook
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
Paul Valery
I'm an outdoor painter painting from life. All of my paintings are oil paintings. They are characterized by short brush strokes and bright light and use of complimentary colors.
William North
It is a mark of respect for his ability as an artist and the longevity of his career. He is an impressive painter, and in a quiet, undemonstrative way he has given a lot to Scottish art.
National Gallery
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
Josephine Baker
And it may be that Lautrec is a very different artist than some people anticipated. People came knowing his posters of the Moulin Rouge, but they then discovered that he's a very accomplished painter with a depth of humanity that wasn't known to most people.
James Cuno
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
Richard Price
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
Matt Painter will do well there, give him some time. They're so far down you have to give him some time.
Bobby Plump
If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.
Franz Kline
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Alfred Stieglitz
I can picture things, like a painter would, though I'm not good at painting, either.
Donald O'connor
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan Sontag
The ball movement really helped our offense tonight and my game as well. We did what coach Painter asked and that was move the ball well.
Matt Kiefer
She's a painter who is not afraid of color. It's not just the saturation of color, but the number of colors and the complexity of the color combinations. And she's not afraid of beauty, either.
Nick Capasso
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.
Pierre auguste Renoir
I started taking courses and became an oil painter, and then an instructor.
D.c. Worthen
The Labor Department was on them because they never hired a woman painter.
Emily Winters
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