Painter Quotes

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The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

There is no must in art because art is free.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.

I draw manga, therefore I am!

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.