Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

Write the masterpiece that has not been written. Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung. Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted. Create the masterpiece that has not been created.

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.

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

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.

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 painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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