#painter

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#everyone #exist #face #front #himself

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#become #begin #boy #child #childhood

Every good painter paints what he is. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#every #good #painter #paints

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

#arts #because #choice #does #feel

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #mother #nabokov #paint #painter

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

#evening #figure #i #landscapes #looking

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#his #just #own #painter #personal

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#films #going #just #like #make

They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model") ↗

— Hume Nisbet

#artist #literature #painter #painting #age

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#art #lighting #truth #art