Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with someone. The painter is telling us something. Just, how do they - what's their syntax? What's their inflection?

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

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

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

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

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

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I am not a juicy 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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