Painter Quotes · Page 15

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

— Fred Armisen

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

— Bill Dedman

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

— Damian Loeb

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

— Patti Smith

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

— James Whistler

Every man is a painter and the sculptor of his own life.

— Pacifiersucker

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether…

— Edvard Munch

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

— Mason Cooley

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without…

— Georg Baselitz

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen…

— Anonymous

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had…

— Alfred Sisley

Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person…

— Anthony Hopkins

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just…

— Evangeline Lilly

I would rather say that I have to be not from Los Angeles but from America. When I go to Europe or…

— Edward Ruscha

In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and…

— Alexander Rodchenko

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what…

— Alan Hovhaness

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for…

— Keegan-Michael Key

When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,…

— Donald Lambert

The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them…

— Grant Morrison

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have…

— Jackson Pollock

One of the things about Derek Jarman was that he was a painter who worked alone when he painted, but I firmly…

— Tilda Swinton

One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of…

— Daniel Kehlmann

The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry…

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and…

— Kehinde Wiley

Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of…

— Thomas Kinkade

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

— Washington Allston

My mother always told me I would be an artist.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one.

— Hemistich

Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.

— Dorothea Tanning

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

— Todd Hido

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

— Joni Mitchell

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

— Chris Ware