#painter

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

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#became #become #general #i #instead

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#eyes #order #ought #out #painters

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#go #matter #modern #most #outside

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone. ↗

— Franz Kline

#painter #way #you

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cities #dome #hills #him #little

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#ears #eyes #his #paint #painter

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#front #him #himself #inside #only

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#into #others #painters #some #spot