#painter

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#coup #final #finish #give #grace

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#face #human #human face #mirror #painter

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#comment #make #painter #painting #sculpture

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#going #here #i #just #mean

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

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#doing #good #good things #knows #longer

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?' ↗

— Peter Malkin

#eyes #i #many #myself #ny times

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

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

#far #invisible #musician #painter #poet

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#among #does #essence #long #matter