Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

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.

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?

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

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

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

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

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

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

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

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

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

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.

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

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 primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

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

I am not a juicy painter.

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

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.

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

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 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 had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

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

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

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 first, and a musician second.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.