Painter Quotes

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having to demonstrate it.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.