Painter Quotes

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

— Benjamin West

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

Painters used red like spice

— Derek Jarman

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I am obsessed with the process of creation.”

— Zdzilsaw Beksinski

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

— Hugo Chavez

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

— John Ashbery

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

— Joni Mitchell

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

— Jack Levine

Dad was a world-famous astronomer; Mom was the artist who drew the iconic Pioneer plaque.

— Nick Sagan

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

— Paul Weller

I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting.

— OSHO

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

— Chris Jordan

If anyone ever asks who I be, tell 'em a painter with a felt pen who drew Ali.

— Jay Electronica

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that…

— Jean Dubuffet

I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a…

— Colleen Atwood

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm…

— Grace Slick

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

— Paula Scher

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your…

— Richard Schmid

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with…

— Carolee Schneemann

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

— Duane Michals

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish…

— John F. Carlson

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become…

— Frederic Chopin

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter…

— Joanna Lumley

A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter…

— Peter Lindbergh

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from…

— Pablo Picasso

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more…

— Eugene Delacroix

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably…

— E. J. Hughes

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is…

— John Ruskin

“Painter" "I said you are only keeping me here in the hospital, lying to my parents and saying I am madder than…

— Robert Lowell

My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the…

— David C. Driskell

Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our…

— Gerhard Richter

I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to…

— James A. Baldwin

The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,…

— Van Day Truex

If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees…

— John Ruskin

I really admire songwriters or any kind of writer, painter or artist that says, "I'm going to get up at 8 o'clock…

— Langhorne Slim

Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting…

— Titian