Painter Quotes · Page 12

The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

— Nicholas Roerich

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

— Robert Motherwell

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.

— Warren MacKenzie

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

— Ken Adam

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

— Chali 2na

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

— Abbie Cornish

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

— Wayne Thiebaud

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will…

— Gertrude Stein

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

— Mark Twain

I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of…

— Frans de Waal

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a…

— Brice Marden

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

— Alberto Moravia

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took…

— Andy Serkis

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they…

— Fred Armisen

I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action…

— Milton Resnick

In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also…

— Walter J. Phillips

I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but…

— Peter Doig

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things…

— Norman Reedus

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd…

— Colin Blakemore

I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even…

— Kazimir Malevich

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as…

— Ronald Reagan

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I…

— Irving Stone

Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.…

— Greg Kramer

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks…

— Anne Lamott

There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many…

— Rajneesh

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,…

— John Locke

“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your…

— Shauna Niequist

“The love of the painter standing alone and staring, staring at the great coloured surface he is making. Standing with him in…

— Mervyn Peake

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

— Meher Baba

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

— Dick Bruna

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints...

— Joni Mitchell

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

— Kenneth Clark

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

— Sylvester Stallone

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

— Sergei Bongart

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

— M. F. Husain