Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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 sign painter with no boss.

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.

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.

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

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 photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

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

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

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.

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

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.