Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

She [Eleanor Roosevelt]wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much more than she did with her life. And Eleanor Roosevelt decides she is going to do everything possible with her life. She's going to live a full life.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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 best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

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

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.