Those painters were the best whose persons were the handsomest.

The painters who carried on the great traditions were Venetian.

The former fan-painter of triumphant mien was now completely blind, a mere thing, a poor suffering thing, whom his wife seated every morning in an armchair where she still found him in the evening when she returned home from her incessant peregrinations through the frightful misery of guilty mothers and martyred children.

A painter must be a poet, but a poet need not

This painter, of whose genius there can be no question, is supposed to have been a pupil of the Van Eycks.

This promising young Italian painter was a pupil of the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples.

An accomplished painter may be the best teacher of painters; but an accomplished dramatist is scarcely the best guide for dramatists.

The slyness of the Head Constable, in the left hand corner, half smothered in his mock robes, is expressively told; and the painter is a capital likeness.

And thus the Dutch painters were potent colorists, and Rembrandt was their chief.

The painter who is content with the praise of the world in respect to what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic,for his time, and not for his art.

This painter Gauguin wasn't such good company as Stevenson, because 'e parleyvoud, but 'e was a bloody worker with 'is brushes at Atuona.

The easel was pushed aside; the painter had become writer.

Like every other really great artist, he had a very just appreciation of the work of other men, and his criticisms were, me judice, very sound and broad from the point of view of art; the only painter of any note I ever heard him speak of with strong dislike was Brett, whom he could not tolerate.

THE PAINTER'S LAST PASSION.

The ideal to which he strains can never be reached, for his very successes keep building it yet higher, and a painter is so far like a baby his whole life through that he is always learning to see.

The painter of the one is the painter of the other.

Another painter favoured by the Medici was Fra Filippo Lippi, whose life and art-work were alike the deviation of a pleasure-loving temperament from its natural sphere into the service of the Church.

The flower painter, Abraham Mignon, was her master in drawing and painting; but at an early age, before her studies were well advanced, she married an architect, John Andrew Graf, of Nuremberg, with whom she lived unhappily.

I often saw Swinburne at Cheyne Walk, and, when they were together, the painter's was certainly the dominant personality, to which Swinburne's attitude was that of an affectionate younger brother.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

I don't care what a fellow is, if he is a good fellow, but a painter is no trade at all!

Two painters, who eminently excelled in simplicity and purity of sentiment, are Gian Bellini of Venice, and Bernardino Luini of Milan.

Another less-known painter represented here is Francesco Granacci (1469-1543), the author of Nos. 1541 and 1280, both rich and warm and pleasing.

It paints a vivid picture of conditions, and as the painter was the ranking Insurgent officer in the valley during this entire period, he cannot be accused of hostile prejudice.

Landscape painters might be guests, but it was only the man who belonged to the landscape who could belong to the body that gambled for it.