Painter Quotes

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.