Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Quotes

I was never a good artist.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.