Painter Quotes
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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 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 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
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
An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.
— Sam Rockwell
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
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
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 continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
— Jackson Pollock
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
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
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
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
I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
— Donald O'Connor