Painter Quotes

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

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.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my more static exploration of space.

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.

The painter who is content with the praise of the world for 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.

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

I'm a sign painter with no boss.

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

I am the Constellation of my own

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Paint me perfect poetry.

A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked in silence.

He wasn’t a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it.

Life is a wave of love for a lover, a gift for a giver, a drama for an actor, and a canvas for a painter.

I have never found a painter more beautiful than his paintings nor a writer who was more expressive than his works. While one got his hands dirty, other made the paper dirty to create masterpieces!