#painter

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. ↗

— John French Sloan

#condemned #eager #energy #every #good

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#been #british #come #countryside #decades

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#artists #best #comes #create #i

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. ↗

— Frank Stella

#against #become #best #gestures #had

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. ↗

— John Hench

#art #artist #communicate #far #fine

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

— Pablo Picasso

#into #others #painters #some #spot

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

#directing #earth #finding #icon #jesus

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#i #i think #just #our #painters

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#i #me #painter #were #you

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. ↗

— Horace

#anything #been #conceded #daring #fancy