If you are without strong passions, you cannot be a painter at all.
The painter does not desire the excitement of rapid movement, nor even the passion of beautiful light.
Now it falls within the compass of ordinary application to place rightly all the folds of drapery or gleams of light on a chain, or ornaments in a pattern; but when it comes to placing every leaf in a tree, the painter gets tired.
That embossed execution of Rembrandt's is just as much ignorant work as the embossed projecting jewels of Carlo Crivelli; a real painter never loads (see the Velasquez, No.
I have always said he is the only great landscape-painter, and to be your only guide, because he is the only landscape-painter who can draw an outline.
Finished from corner to corner, as well as the painter easily could; everything done to good purpose, nothing for vain glory; nothing in haste or affectation, nothing in feverish or morbid excitement.
There is more real relation to the great schools of art, more fellowship with Bellini and Titian, in the humblest painter of letters on village signboards than in men like these.
I haven't seen the old painter again--I call him painter simply because he wore that long robe.
Even a dragon painter from the mountains must know something of certain primitive obligations to the dead, and for Umè not even an ihai had been set up by that of her mother in the family shrine.
The "New Kano" and "The Dragon Painter of Kiu Shiu" the people of the city called him.
It seemed unworthy of a Dragon Painter to accept this multitude of material devices.
She shall not be married in the teeth of evil fortune, if I have to murder the Dragon Painter with my fish-knife!
But, after all, no woman painter could be supreme.
I am convinced that this house is bewitched, that the Dragon Painter has a train of elementals in attendance.
Dick thought it remarkable that a painter should choose to work over an absinthe in a public cafe, and looked the man over.
Years before he had been a painter of some standing in a colony, and portraits signed 'Van Tromp' had celebrated the greatness of colonial governors and judges.
Pacheco, painter and poet, had his circle of gifted artists and men of letters; and the doors of the Casa Pilatos, the beautiful mansion of the Dukes of Alcala, were open to all the lovers of learning and the students of art.
Greater than Luis de Vargas was the Flemish painter Pedro Campana, who came to Spain and settled in Seville in the year 1548.
They at once assured his fame; the unknown artist became the most popular painter in opulent Seville.
The church that contained the bones of Murillo was pillaged by the soldiers, and the tomb of the great painter was destroyed.
Luis de Vargas, the painter of the Nativity picture in the Cathedral, whose fresco work is to be seen elsewhere in the city, was a student of the Italian method.
Murillo and many another painter of renown stood here anxiously awaiting chance purchasers for their works.
After his death, scourges used for self-inflicted penance were found in his room, and by his bed was a coffin in which the ascetic painter used to lie in order to meditate seriously upon life.
It is reported that the Italian Perez de Alesio, the painter of the giant San Cristobal, exclaimed when gazing upon his handiwork, 'The whole of my figure is of less merit than the leg of Adam.
These qualities in a high degree make the artist, whether painter or engraver, naturally excelling in portraits.
Agostino Caracci, of the Bolognese family, memorable in art, added to considerable success as painter undoubted triumphs as engraver.
His eminence as painter was continued as engraver.
The painter indeed, if he succeed at all in engaging the attention of the public, gains great sums and can stand to his easel until a great age without dishonourable failure.
Marlotte has a name; it is famous; if I were the young painter I would leave it alone in its glory.
And for the same cause, and by the force of tradition, the painter of to-day continues to inhabit and to paint it.
Oh," sighed he, "why am I not a painteror an artist, that I might sketch this scene!
The painter shows us a piece he is now about for the king, taken from the AEneid: Venus restraining the arm which is raised in the temple of the Vestals to shed the blood of Helen.
Among her feats was having appeared in a ballet in a dress especially designed, by the painter David, at her bidding, to be more indecent than nakedness.
Yet the painter refused to have it framed, and concealed it from view behind a curtain in his studio.
Instead of being an indifferent painter myself, I am an extensive purchaser of works of art, so that my conscience acquits me of any very great wrong in the course I adopted.
The painter sat by the bedside, with her thin, pale hand clasped in his.
The painter lit a lamp, and then a huge meerschaum filled with fragrant tobacco, his nightly solace and daily inspiration.
An itinerant portrait painter came round, with his tools of trade, and did the dominie in brown and red, and the squire's daughter in vermilion and flake white, and set the whole village agog with his marvellous achievements.
And now the fame of the young painter flew through the village.
The painter had poured out his soul upon that angelic countenance and perfect figure.
With such a subject before me," replied the painter "I could not labor more conscientiously, if the picture were designed for myself.
The next day, at eleven o'clock, every thing was in readiness, and thepainter awaited the solution of the mystery.
At the time of this announcement, the painter was standing opposite the open door through which the physicians had just entered.
The painter was so strong a believer in the supernatural, had been subject to so many inexplicable influences, that he felt no surprise at the stranger's naming the subject of the veiled picture without uncovering it.
A nameless chill came over the painter as he surveyed the aspect of his unknown visitor.
The painter sat before it, giving the last touches with a feeble yet graceful hand.
If, seized by an intolerable boredom, he had determined to be a painter merely to break with irksome ties, it would have been comprehensible, and commonplace; but commonplace is precisely what I felt he was not.
The only painterthat interested him who was at all unexpected was Brueghel the Elder.
I do not know what put it into my head to ask: "I say, have you by any chance run across a painter called Charles Strickland?
But when Stroeve spoke of Chardin it was not without reason, and she reminded me curiously of that pleasant housewife in her mob-cap and apron whom the great painter has immortalised.
A man doesn't throw up his business and leave his wife and children at the age of forty to become a painter unless there's a woman in it.
Then, imagine to yourself, just before the war my brother wrote to me from Paris, and said: 'Do you know anything about an English painter who lived in Tahiti?
I'd much rather be married to a painter than to a stockbroker.
I rather wanted to be a painter when I was a boy, but my father made me go into business because he said there was no money in art.
Strickland did not come, but presently we saw the French painter who occasionally played chess with him.
I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice.
Famous French painter who studied under David at the same time as Drouais, Girodet and Gros.
A famous French painter who followed the Algerian campaign and painted several battle scenes illustrating it.
A German painter who acquired a brilliant reputation at an early age.
Famous German painter and engraver with a rich sense of colour and a clever and realistic touch.
I went with Wolff to see the studio of Begas, a German painter trained at Paris under the eyes of Gros.
A French painter who gave lessons in drawing to the daughters of the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden.
Famous German painterof the School of Düsseldorf.
Painter in Miniature and Enamel to his Majesty Geo.
The moon was and will forever be the sun of lovers, that soft decoration-painter of their scenes: she swells their emotions as she does the seas, and raises in their eyes also a flood-tide.
London with his Highland wife some time in the "eighties," and made a modest mark as a water-colour painter and caricaturist.
The Mincio passage was effected without any difficulty, offering by its good arrangements matter of thought to the military, but otherwise being a subject rather for a landscape painter than for a painter of battles.
He believes that without envy the arts would be indifferently cultivated, and that Raphael would not have been a great painter if he had not been jealous of Michael Angelo.
The artists of the French revolution had given their very first essays and sketches of robbery and desolation against his territories, in a far more cruel "murdering piece" than had ever entered into the imagination of painter or poet.
A painter not long ago thus defined his own art: "The art of painting is the art of imitating solid objects upon a flat surface by means of pigments.
His father was a painter of some celebrity, who has left many fine works in the galleries of Versailles and Rouen.
Duggan, a painter whose works adorn many of our best collections in art, is Professor of Drawing.
When work was hard to get just after the depression in the early 1930's, Leon got a job as a painter at Brigham Hall.
I continued working with Clarence until 1959 when I was offered a job as a painter in the maintenance department at the hospital.
The painter was now over forty, and still seemed to bear Violante on his heart.
At once Leonardo, who had been painter to King Louis while in Milan, joined himself to Francis, not wishing to remain in Rome.
It has all Titian's matchless warmth of coloring, with a correctness of design no other painter of the Venetian school ever attained.
A most fortunate thing resulted from this acquaintance; Rubens was appointed painter to the court and a member of the ducal household.
This year, 1746, Samuel Reynolds died, and the young painter took his two unmarried sisters to Plymouth to provide for them in his new home.
Golden sunsets are easy in comparison, as every painter knows.
No other painter has ever known how to produce such a full and satisfactory tone of light, such a deep chiaro-oscuro united with such general brilliancy.
It is said that the model was a lovely flower-girl to whom the painter was much attached.
Here he received more famous people than any other English painter save Joshua Reynolds.
In after years he put all these changing scenes upon canvas, becoming the most famous idealist as well as the "greatest landscape-painter of the Venetian school.
The painterpaints his picture, but it has no life.
