Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a 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 didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

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

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as 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 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 I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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