Painter Quotes

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

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I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past.

I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

I wanted to be a painter.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.