Famous quotes containing the words english and/or painter:
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
—17th-century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)
“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow ... the coup de grĂ¢ce for the painter as well as for the picture.”
—Pablo Picasso (18811973)