Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

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 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 always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

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'm a painter first, and a musician second.

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'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 sign painter with no boss.

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 related to the portrait painter George Romney.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think of me being a painter eventually.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

Le style, pour l'e  crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.

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

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

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

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.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk