#painter

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

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

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

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

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#could #feels #his #invests #model

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

— Agnes Varda

#hands #painter #tool

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#another #any #art #boy #every

Beauty is in the mind, not the eye. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#beauty

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#canvas #closeness #exists #film #his

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#great #life #painter #surrealism #then