Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

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

How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

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 am not a juicy painter.

I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

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

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.

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

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

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

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.

I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

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

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

I'm a sign painter with no boss.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

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

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

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

It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits!

I think of me being a painter eventually.

It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.

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

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

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

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

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

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

I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always resented that actually.. we were all getting the same amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales.

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.