Painter Quotes · Page 13

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

— St. Lucia

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

— Hideo Kojima

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

— Randall Jarrell

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

— Edgar Degas

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

— Man Ray

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

— Vincente Minnelli

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope…

— Creed Bratton

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind…

— Joseph Joubert

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an…

— Kurt Cobain

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as…

— John French Sloan

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

— Gertrude Stein

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no…

— Pierre Bonnard

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like…

— Sean Penn

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters…

— Francis Bacon

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily…

— Andre Malraux

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that…

— John Constable

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,…

— J. G. Ballard

I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this…

— Joel-Peter Witkin

However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if…

— Gloria Steinem

Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And…

— Sharon Zukin

What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears…

— Pablo Picasso

The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the…

— John Ruskin

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and…

— Edward Ruscha

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more…

— Arthur Koestler

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the…

— Lillian Hellman

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.

— will.i.am

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

— Edouard Manet

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for three years.

— Jimmy Bullard

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

— Winston Churchill

Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.

— Victor Vasarely

My family is filled with amazingly talented painters, musicians, vocalists.

— Mya

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

— Andy Warhol