Painter famous quotes

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Paint #Painter #Bleak

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
-- Alfred Sisley

#Strong #Feelings #Painter

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.
-- Alton Brown

#Believe #Chocolate #Painter

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.
-- Andy Serkis

#Growing Up #Kids #Painter

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
-- Andy Warhol

#Dancer #Tap Dancers #Painter

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

#Summer #Interest #Painter

A painter is a choreographer of space.
-- Barnett Newman

#Space #Painter

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

#Painter #Stills

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

#Plagiarism #Painter

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
-- Brendan Behan

#Children #Married #Painter

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

#Men #Priests #Painter

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
-- Bruce Campbell

#Father #Painter #Wanted

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.
-- Carolee Schneemann

#Principles #Canvas #Painter

The successful painter is continually painting still life.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne

#Successful #Painting #Painter

I have never been much of a painter.
-- Christian Marclay

#Painter

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.
-- Cindy Sherman

#Guy #Painter

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

#Poet #Painter #Great Poet

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.
-- Cleo Moore

#Very Good #Painter

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
-- Diego Rivera

#Suffering #Very Good #Painter

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
-- Dore Ashton

#Difficult #Intellect #Painter

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Cézanne through the 1950s.
-- Ed Askew

#Art #Modernism #Painter

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
-- Edouard Manet

#Care #Painting #Painter

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.
-- Edouard Vuillard

#Armchairs #Instruments #Painter

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.
-- Edvard Munch

#Color #Painter #Perceive

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

#Writing #Painter

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.
-- Emil Nolde

#Spiritual #Soul #Painter

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.
-- Ernst Gombrich

#Painting #Beholder #Painter

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.
-- Franz Kline

#Way #Painter #Not Alone

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
-- Gus Van Sant

#Hunting #Filmmaking #Painter

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
-- Hans Hofmann

#Speak #Paint #Painter

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.
-- Harold Rosenberg

#Prestige #Fame #Painter

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.
-- Helen Frankenthaler

#Female #Paint #Painter

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Landscape #Invention #Painter

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
-- Howard Hodgkin

#Thinking #Rooms #Painter

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.
-- Howard Hodgkin

#Painting #Painter #Endangered Species

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Painter #Wanted

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

#Wish #Paint #Painter

Every good painter paints what he is.
-- Jackson Pollock

#Art #Paint #Painter

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#Poultry #Canvas #Painter

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
-- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#Gold #Pennies #Painter

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
-- Jean-Jacques Annaud

#Paint #Painter

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Letters #Want #Painter

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
-- Jenny Holzer

#Rotten #Abstract #Painter

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.
-- Joaquin Sorolla

#Inspired #Being True #Painter

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.
-- John Ruskin

#Art #Architecture #Painter

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.
-- Jonathan Pryce

#School #Artist #Painter

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier
-- Joris-Karl Huysmans

#Modern #Excellent #Painter

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
-- Josef Albers

#Paint #Painter

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out.
-- Joshua Reynolds

#Degradation #Painter #Heard

One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.
-- Ken Gillespie

#Dog #Intellect #Painter

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

#Rolling #Balls #Painter

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
-- Lucian Freud

#Needs #Obsession #Painter

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
-- Lucian Freud

#Taken #Quality #Painter

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
-- M. F. Husain

#Lasts #Painter

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
-- M. F. Husain

#Painter

I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.
-- Martin Mull

#Artist #Sometimes #Painter

I wanted to be a painter.
-- Max Cannon

#Painter #Wanted

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.
-- Max Ernst

#Roles #Projects #Painter

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
-- Michael Heizer

#Theme #Painter

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.
-- Michel Eugene Chevreul

#Painting #Methodology #Painter

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

#Work #Building #Painter

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
-- Norah Jones

#Way #Paint #Painter

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Want #Painter #Parallel Lives

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Artist #Painting #Painter

Color and I are one. I am a painter.
-- Paul Klee

#Color #Painter

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
-- Paul Weller

#Body #Painter

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Thinking #Ends #Painter

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Today #Painter #Wells

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Painting #Good Work #Painter

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?
-- Robert Henri

#Painter #Deals #Stills

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
-- Robert Motherwell

#Consciousness #Ethical #Painter

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...
-- Robert Motherwell

#Would Be #Painting #Painter

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
-- Saint John Chrysostom

#Men #Painter

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.
-- Sam Rockwell

#Editors #Magic #Painter

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.
-- Sergei Bongart

#Artist #Painter #Competence

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

#Numbers #Two #Painter

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
-- Sigmar Polke

#People #Trying #Painter

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
-- Spalding Gray

#Painter #Pens

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter
-- Todd Hido

#Photograph #Print #Painter

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

#Theater #Born #Painter

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

#Way #Surrealism #Painter

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.
-- Washington Allston

#Gains #Made #Painter

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
-- Wayne Thiebaud

#Art #Ideas #Painter

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.
-- Wolf Kahn

#Landscape #Individual #Painter

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.
-- Chali 2na

#Firsts #Painter

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Painting #Painter #I Can

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.
-- Erol Alkan

#Brain #Wish #Painter

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.
-- Georgia O'Keeffe

#Earth #Miles #Painter

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

#Spokes #Painter #Instructors

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
-- Nir Hod

#Painting #Painter #Storyteller

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

#Basketball #Calling #Painter

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

#Oil #Painting #Painter

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

#Vans #Painter #Geometric

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.
-- Warren MacKenzie

#Said #Painter

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.
-- William McNamara

#Reflection #Surveys #Painter

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
-- Brian Chippendale

#Musician #Masters #Painter

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
-- Alison Mosshart

#Interesting #Creative #Painter

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
-- Brice Marden

#Believe #Abstract #Painter

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.
-- Edouard Vuillard

#Armchairs #Instruments #Painter

The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.
-- Roger Bissiere

#Color #Painter