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What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?
— Gregory Maguire
A poet is a painter of the soul.
— Isaac D'Israeli
I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.
— Pete Wentz
I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
— H.R. Giger
You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
— Brian Chippendale
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.
— Sylvester Stallone
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
— Alphonse De Lamartine
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
— Jackson Pollock
I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.
— Marcel Duchamp
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
— M. F. Husain
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
— Oliver Goldsmith
An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.
— Lynne Tillman
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
— Salvador Dali
I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
— Randy Bachman
I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
— Hugo Chavez
By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
— Claude Monet
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.
— Walter J. Phillips
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
— Marcel Duchamp
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.
— William Blake
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.
— Robert Motherwell
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
— N. Scott Momaday
I've always been admired as a musician and painter but not spiritual writer, and that's why God's an artist, not priest.
— Robin Sacredfire
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
— Wayne Thiebaud
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
— Patti Smith
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.
— John Constable
I will be a historical painter.
— William Allan
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.
— Annie Parisse
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.
— Cristobal Balenciaga
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
— Robert Breault
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
— Mia Wasikowska
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way ... style.
— Frank Auerbach
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
— Sylvia Kristel
The function of the painter is to render ... the visible surface so that at a certain distance ... and position it appears ... like the body itself.
— Leon Battista Alberti
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
— Octavio Paz
I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.
— Ragnar Kjartansson
I fell for Levi "Painter" Brooks the first time I saw him, although in all fairness I did have a head injury at the time.
— Joanna Wylde
Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!
— John Ashbery
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
— Charles M. Schulz
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
— Pablo Picasso
I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it.
— Patricia Highsmith
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Color and I are one. I am a painter.
— Paul Klee
I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
— M. F. Husain
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
— Tunde Adebimpe
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
— Salvador Dali
Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.
— Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
— Vincent Van Gogh
A painter is a choreographer of space.
— Barnett Newman
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
— Claude Monet
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
— Josephine Baker
Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
— Norman McLaren
I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.
— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
— Augustus John
A dancer or a painter or a writer.They create beautiful moments and capture them in their imagination
— K.J. Kilton
I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter?
— Denis O'Hare
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
— Gilbert Stuart
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
— Luis Bunuel
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.
— Jean-Luc Godard
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
— Denis Diderot
The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.
— Laura Gilpin
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
— Chris Jordan
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.
— Kenneth Noland
