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Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
— Larry Rivers
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
— Jean-Jacques Annaud
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
— David Hockney
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
— P.J. Harvey
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.
— Giorgio De Chirico
Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.
— Samuel L. Jackson
The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.
— Ralph Allen
Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.
— Stella McCartney
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.
— Edgar Alwin Payne
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
— Gerald Brenan
Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to ...
— James Elkins
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
— Alexander McCall Smith
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
— Alexander Pope
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
— Augustus William Hare
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.
— Joaquin Sorolla
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
— Eugene Delacroix
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
— Rudolf Arnheim
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
— Eugene Delacroix
Painters ... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
— William Hazlitt
Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
— Edvard Munch
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
— Henri Rousseau
Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.
— Pablo Picasso
Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.
— Mark Kozelek
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
— Duane Michals
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.
— Harold Rosenberg
Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?
— Gregory Maguire
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
— Roy Lichtenstein
Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.
— Brice Marden
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.
— Joel Sternfeld
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.
— Haruki Murakami
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.
— Joshua L. Goldberg
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.
— Pierre Alechinsky
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
— Tina Weymouth
I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.
— Don DeLillo
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.
— Nigel Barker
And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.
— Marcel Proust
It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
— Dore Ashton
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
— Robert Wyatt
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
— John Ciardi
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
— Virginia Woolf
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.
— Jessa Crispin
Doing brings happiness. Too much time for discussion - discord. — Theresa Sjoquist
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
— Paulo Coelho
Fashion photographers are the new painters.
— Peter Lindbergh
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?
— Eva Marie Saint
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
— Paul Cezanne
The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.
— Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
— Vincent Van Gogh
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator,
— Tony Evans
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
— Howard Hodgkin
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.
— Anton Corbijn
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
— Pierre Bonnard
Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters.
— Shriram Iyer
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
— Minoru Yamasaki
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.
— Yves Klein
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
— Paolo Veronese
If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you
— Shannon Dermott
Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
— Mark Twain
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.
— Barnett Newman
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
— Henry David Thoreau
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
— Jessica Alba
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
— Berthe Morisot
Real painters grunt like Marlon Brando
— Margaret Atwood
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
— Hans Hofmann
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These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were.
— John McLaughlin
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
— Barbara Kruger
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
