#painter

Painters must speak through paint, not through words. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#paint #painters #speak #through #words

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again. ↗

— Jane Campion

#again #being #better #did #economic

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#book #brooks #century #early #i

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

I am obsessed with the process of creation. ↗

— Zdzisław Beksiński

#painter #poland #polish #art

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#each #eye #mind #other #painter

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

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#become #flowers #having #i #owe

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#i #learning #lot #painter #very

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#brain #day #forward #history #hope