Best 174 quotes in «painter quotes» category

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

I'm a sign painter with no boss.

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

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

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

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.

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

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

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

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 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.

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

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

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