Painter Quotes · Page 10

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

— Stacy Martin

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

— Hartley Coleridge

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

— William Hazlitt

“I wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

— James Gray

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

— Jonathan Pryce

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true…

— Francesco Albani

Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

— Robert Henri

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

— Wayne Dyer

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before…

— Salvador Dali

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,…

— Gerhard Richter

You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the…

— Mark Rothko

I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very…

— Jared Leto

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually…

— Carolyn Kizer

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the…

— George Grosz

I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a…

— Ralph Goings

What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a…

— Jane Fonda

We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has…

— Maurice Denis

“If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part…

— Leonardo da Vinci

If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to…

— Henri Matisse

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…

— Stanley Kubrick

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is…

— Ellen McLaughlin

I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the…

— J. G. Ballard

As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an…

— Gerhard Richter

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes…

— Walt Whitman

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.

— Martin Mull

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

— Arne Glimcher

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

— Matthew Quick

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

— Robert Rauschenberg

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir