Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model")

To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

We made love again. This time it was me who asked. Lying there again, on the bed, this time with heat, almost an oven heat, coming through the screen, and sweat instead of tears, I wondered how simple we really are. That we can do the same things again and again and again and find them interesting, even fascinating and seek the repetition with a hunger as avid. How fishing was like that, and painting.

why do you paint in the dark' i ask him and he looks not at me but away 'because i cannot bear my own darkness in the light' he is quiet for some time 'but inwardly i am told where there is paint to be and i paint it there in the dark so none can see myself truly burning in the sun

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

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.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

Usually, a "great painter" is a dead painter.

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.

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 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 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.

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

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?

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

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

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.

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

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

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 interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

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

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

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

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 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.

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.