Top 100 Quotes About A Painter
#1. I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
Harold Feinstein
#2. A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.
George Ellwanger
#3. Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.
Leo Tolstoy
#4. I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a shoe store, sell real estate, or what? I was really depressed by the whole thing, because I felt like a painter, yet I couldn't make paintings.
Ralph Goings
#5. I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
Xander Berkeley
#6. Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.
Joanna Lumley
#7. I never thought I would be a painter. That I might make a world and walk into it and forget myself. That art would be something I would not have any way of not doing.
Peter Heller
#8. My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#9. My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.
Alan Arkin
#10. I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.
Andy Summers
#11. It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David Bailey
#12. The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.
Jim Grimsley
#13. I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
Chris Jordan
#14. It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.
Arne Glimcher
#15. Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
Ed O'Brien
#16. 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
#17. I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.
Rube Goldberg
#18. Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Also he was not really a painter. Henri has so steeped himself in stories of the Left Bank in Paris that he lived there although he had never been there.
John Steinbeck
#19. As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.
Brahmananda Saraswati
#20. I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.
Giorgio Morandi
#21. A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
#22. I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.
Fred Durst
#23. I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
Olivier Megaton
#24. Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it ... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.
Elizabeth Neel
#25. You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.
L. S. Lowry
#26. I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
Brendan Behan
#27. A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.
Moshe Safdie
#28. When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
Bat For Lashes
#29. My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
Sadie Frost
#30. The progression of a painter's work ... will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer ... to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.
Mark Rothko
#31. When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.
Jonathan Pryce
#32. The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.
Peter Cook
#33. Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.
Grandma Moses
#34. The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.
Arthur Symons
#35. My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.
Philip Schultz
#36. I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
Aaron Huey
#37. Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
Paul Klee
#38. We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#39. The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
Leonardo Da Vinci
#40. I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
Rose Kennedy
#41. The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
Franz Kline
#42. Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
Vincente Minnelli
#43. A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
Paul Cezanne
#44. I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I've had to realize, that I wouldn't make it as a painter, a sculptor or a musician. I have tried, but only in private
Finn Juhl
#45. The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.
Wale
#46. To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
Octavio Paz
#47. I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
Jasper Johns
#48. Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.
Andrew McAleer
#50. Watching my stepfather and mother working in the industry - acting and composing - and seeing firsthand how difficult it is to achieve a successful career in the theater, I thought it might be safer to go to art school with the aim of becoming a painter.
Juliet Rylance
#51. As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.
Oscar Wilde
#52. The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.
Patrick Swift
#53. No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
Edouard Manet
#54. That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing.
John Currin
#55. I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
#56. He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All I think of when I see that picture is that it has the supreme mastery I have spent all my life trying to attain. And shall not. Ever.
John Fowles
#57. I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
John Dyer
#58. I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.
Julian Schnabel
#59. 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
#60. A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
Vidya Balan
#61. You are the artistic painter of your success. Paint your life day-by-day, into a masterpiece of excellence over a lifetime.
Mark LaMoure
#62. Every minute becomes a yesterday and is lost forever.
R.K. Narayan
#63. A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.
Bob Dylan
#64. I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.
Elvin Jones
#65. My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for language, but was stopped. When I expressed a desire to become a graphic designer, I was not stopped.
Stefan Sagmeister
#66. I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you're painting.
Lee Krasner
#67. Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
Steve Guttenberg
#68. 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
#69. Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
Jamie Wyeth
#70. The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#71. 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
#72. I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator - that wasn't for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.
Anton Du Beke
#73. Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
Jamie Wyeth
#74. I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.
Franka Potente
#75. I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.
Douglas Booth
#76. Don't you want to be anything. An architect or a gardener, or perhaps a painter?'
'No, I don't ... I'd like to do entirely different things. I'd like to understand what robins say to each other. ... I'd like to see how trees manage to drink water with their roots and get to be so big.
Hermann Hesse
#77. There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#78. Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
Damien Hirst
#79. It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
Vincent Van Gogh
#80. My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a sign-writer.
Sherwood Anderson
#81. But in a still life, there is no end to our looking, which has become allied with the gaze of the painter; we look in and in, to the world of things, in their ambiance of cool or warm light, in and in, as long as we can stand to look, as long as we take pleasure in looking.
Mark Doty
#84. There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.
Mirabel Osler
#85. I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
Richard Price
#86. The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
Salvador Dali
#87. I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.
Graham Elliot
#88. The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.
Walter J. Phillips
#89. I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
Lynda Barry
#90. Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#91. 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
#92. Duncan's hands are long and soft, with a small, neat callus on his thumb from holding a brush - the painter's hallmark. I felt it when he shook my hand.
Priya Parmar
#93. After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.
Allan Gurganus
#94. Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.
Tony Curtis
#95. Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.
Michael Pitt
#96. If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.
Bill Watterson
#97. A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
Jean Cocteau
#98. In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.
Walter J. Phillips
#99. Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!
Julia Roberts
#100. I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because he chooses to, not because he can't draw.
Clarice Lispector
