Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

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 a sign painter with no boss.

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.

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

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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 eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

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

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.