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What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself? — Gregory Maguire

I was too practical to want to be a painter. — Paul Rand

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. — Marc Chagall

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

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

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. — Pablo Picasso

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism. — Walter Darby Bannard

Pain brings clarity. — Kristen Painter

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. — George Clooney

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer visualises life in words, a painter in colours, a singer in music, an actor in emotions, a dancer in steps... — Shikha Kaul

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red. — Titian

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

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value. — Steven Soderbergh

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

That sure is a beautiful picture," she said. "Looks just like heaven or something." "Or something," said the painter. — Kurt Vonnegut

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. — Anne Stevenson

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself. — Francis Bacon

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

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali — Salvador Dali

What would the public do when Halloween had come and gone but the monsters still remained? — Kristen 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

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army. — Orson Welles

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

Yes, but when I go out, I let my light shine. Unlike you, who has yet to actually turn your light on. At least I know now there's a bulb in there. — Kristen Painter

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. — Willem De Kooning

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter. — Joe Mantello

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist. — Agnes Varda

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

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

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. — Mary Astor

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

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine. — Paul Cezanne

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

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas. — Loretta Lux

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter. — Kenneth Noland

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. — Walter J. Phillips

Every minute becomes a yesterday and is lost forever. — R.K. Narayan

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

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. — Anna Halprin

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject ... Paint a sense of place. — Paul Strisik

Beauty is in the mind, not the eye. — Agnes Martin

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pain always seemed to make her more beautiful. — Kristen Painter

The painter strives and competes with nature. — Leonardo Da Vinci

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. — Cate Blanchett

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see. — Vincent Van Gogh

You are a painter of success. Paint your life into a masterpiece of excellence. — Mark LaMoure

Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I think the general's job is harder than the painter's; canvas doesn't fight back, after all. — Django Wexler

A painter is a choreographer of space. — Barnett Newman

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

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. — Ron White

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. — Paul Cezanne

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

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. — Jackson Pollock

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

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

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

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter. — Robert Henri

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others. — Emile Gruppe

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art. — Pierre Bonnard

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

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. — Frank O'Hara

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

You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings. — L. S. Lowry

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty. — Sylvia Kristel

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon. — Daniel Tosh

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 successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always. — Brahmananda Saraswati

How can you fly? I mean you have wings. Feathers. Did you know you have wings? — Sally Painter

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 was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

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

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back. — Paula Fox

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric Raymond

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

If people think you're powerful, then you usually are. — Sarah Painter

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

Paint the essential character of things. — Camille Pissarro

I wanted to be a painter. — Max Cannon

If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter. — Hokusai Katsushika

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline

You saved my life.I trust you until you give me a reason to do otherwise — Kristen Painter

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. — G.H. Hardy

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes. — Lucas Grabeel

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?' — Peter Malkin

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

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. — Joseph Joubert

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. — Algernon Charles Swinburne