painter

He wasn__ a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it.

A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked in silence.

Paint me perfect poetry.

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")

Look at this one._ I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent, knobby collarbone. He looked_complicated and hungry. She__ captured him focused intensely on a book, his face pressed against a wall like he was resting. Or waiting.

You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers

I am the Constellation of my own

I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That__ what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don__ see him as a living individual painter any more.

I adore the elegance of botanical realism but I also can't help but dream of my very own neo-surrealistic fantasy flowers, and so I paint and illustrate both; I always find myself between both of those worlds.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

I love to draw__encil, ink pen__ love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England__ou know those huge paintings?____ just amazed. You don__ think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.

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

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

Every good painter paints what he is.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.