Painter Quotes

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . .

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

I have never been much of a painter.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.