“Artists who don't paint aren't artists.”
Charles Thomson (artist) (1953) British artist
Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
From The Stuckist Manifesto (1999) co-written with Billy Childish
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“Artists who don't paint aren't artists.”
Billy Childish (1959) British musician
Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
From The Stuckist Manifesto, (1999) co-written with Charles Thomson
William Baziotes (1912–1963) American painter
Quote from Baziotes' text for the symposium 'The Creative process', Art Digest Vol. 28, no 8, 15; January 1954, p. 33
Baziotes is referring here to the many art-debates and exchanges between the New York Abstract Expressionist artists
1950s
“Artist should be left alone to paint or not to paint, write or not to write.”
A.R. Ammons (1926–2001) American poet
Paris Review interview (1996)
“A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.”
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) Dutch 17th century painter and etcher
Statement attributed to Rembrandt in early biographies, as quoted in The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France (2003), by Alison MacQueen <br class="br">One of the popular aphorisms about Rembrandt's paintings, drawn from his early biographies in early 19th century and repeatedly attributed to the artist by the French writers and artist, Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France, 2003,p. 287 https://books.google.nl/books?id=N0dVqAsR5k0C&pg=PA292&lpg=PA292&dq=The+Rise+of+the+Cult+of+Rembrandt:+Reinventing+an+Old+Master+in+Nineteenth-century+France&source=bl&ots=SgL2TN2Xct&sig=ZJuOkH35vmifBkzcu5ASLdLyhTI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx17OkrpfVAhWKnBoKHQlxA0oQ6AEIVzAJ#v=onepage&q=The%20Rise%20of%20the%20Cult%20of%20Rembrandt%3A%20Reinventing%20an%20Old%20Master%20in%20Nineteenth-century%20France&f=false/The <br class="br">undated quotes
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
In the introduction, (written in 1951) of his not published book: "Line Form and Color"; as quoted in "Ellsworth Kelly, a Retrospective", ed. Diane Waldman, Guggenheim museum, New York 1997, p. 22
1950 - 1968
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I am not an artist just someone who paints.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) British visual artist
Interview tapes Cotton & Mullineux