Painter Quotes

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.

I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.