Quotes About Painters

Painters sometimes come to Cairn; they set up their easels and mix their colours and paint strange pictures of the place—pictures which, as far as the villagers can see, bear little or no resemblance to the scene.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see. And there are painters who never do anything that is no good...

And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.

Bom – afinal há tantos pintores que de um modo ou de outro são doidos, que pouco a pouco me consolarei.

In the first place, it pleased me enormously that Theo and Mr. Tersteeg have entered into business relations in order to make the work of the painters here who are called impressionists known in Holland too.

Moreover, the material problems of the painter's life make it desirable that painters should collaborate and unite (much as they did in the days of the Guilds of St. Luke). If only they would ensure their material well-being, and love one another like friends instead of making one another's life hell, painters would be happier, and in any case less ridiculous, less foolish and less culpable.

Crees con formalidad que entre los dioses hay guerras, odios, combates y todas las demás pasiones tan sorprendentes que los poetas y pintores nos representan en sus poesías y en sus cuadros

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

A portrait reveals the inner life, the secret life of the person. That's what painters try to capture. But it's one thing to hunt it down in someone else, and a whole other thing to turn the gun on ourselves.

I want to keep our intentions small and human despite the enormous work we've done and the huge work we have ahead of us and I'm sitting here with a propped foot and talking endlessly about my work when I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

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

It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes us like.

Los pintores japoneses de ukiyo-e que más influyeron en los impresionistas fueron Hiroshige y otro igual de importante y famoso llamado Hokusai, cuyo rastro podía seguirse en todos los impresionistas y postimpresionistas, especialmente en Vincent Van Gogh, que directamente los copiaba.

played the piano every night and made the most superficial acquaintances with poets and painters and artists that often only lasted a night.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Las personas que temen a otros seres humanos desean ver espectros de apariencia todavía más horrible; las que son nerviosas y se asustan con facilidad, rezan para que la tormenta sea lo más violenta posible; y ciertos pintores, que han sufrido a causa de unos fantasmas llamados seres humanos, acaban creyendo en cosas fantásticas y viendo espectros en pleno día, en medio de la naturaleza.