Painter Quotes · Page 14

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

— Gertrude Stein

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

— William Blake

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I'm the seventh child among eight siblings and have always had a gift for art.

— Brahmanandam

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A painter knows how to paint, but an artist knows when to stop.

— Jae Hill

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

— Paul Cezanne

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

— Edward Dahlberg

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

— Walter J. Phillips

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

— Igor Babailov

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it…

— Blaise Pascal

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon…

— David Lynch

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing…

— Peter Brook

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide…

— Joshua Reynolds

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 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

...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer.…

— Gregory Maguire

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of…

— Pablo Picasso

We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals…

— Henry Van Dyke

Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,…

— David Lynch

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you…

— Carl Safina

The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is…

— Swami Vivekananda

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…

— Harry Crews

Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter;…

— Max Beckmann

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

— Alexander Rodchenko

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

— Shaquille O'Neal

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

— Salvador Dali

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

— Jean Cocteau

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

— Gertrude Atherton

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.

— Thom Gunn

My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.

— Sam Heughan