Favourite quotes about portrait painting and painting general
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde
- No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. - Edvard Munch
- What fascinates me much, much more than does anything else in my métier is the portrait... I should like to do portraits which will appear as revelations to people in 100 years time. - Vincent Van Gogh
- I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. - Kathe Kollwitz
Famous painters I admire
Believe in yourself, respect the others
Pablo Picasso the rulebreaker
“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.”
Pablo Picasso - Spanish painter
Pablo Picasso - Spanish painter
Liberty of realism
Gustave Courbet, father of realism
"I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty."
Gustave Courbet French painter
Gustave Courbet French painter
Be humble but courageous
Lucian Freud self-portrait
"I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do."
Lucian Freud English painter
Lucian Freud English painter
My favorite painters
Art history - Painting movements
My favorite painters - from all the ages
As you see from the list, my artistic taste is very eclectic, I like the Renaissance and Baroque masters, the classicist painters, the impressionists, some modern painters: expressionists, cubists and surrealists. But above all, I like realism!
As you see from the list, my artistic taste is very eclectic, I like the Renaissance and Baroque masters, the classicist painters, the impressionists, some modern painters: expressionists, cubists and surrealists. But above all, I like realism!
Neocassicism
Romanticism
| Realism
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Impressionism
| Post-impressionism, expressionismCubism
| Surrealism
Art deco
Op-art
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