Painter Quotes · Page 18

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

— Dore Ashton

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

— Lord Byron

“HIERONIMO. Art a painter? canst paint me a tear, or a wound, a groan, or a sigh?”

— Thomas Kyd

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

— Frank Stella

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

— Josef Albers

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

— Francis Bacon

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

— Norman Spinrad

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,…

— Sue Halpern

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

— Eugene Delacroix

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints…

— Jasper Johns

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

— Lu Xun

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to…

— Floyd Norman

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he…

— Friedrich Schiller

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some…

— Steven Soderbergh

It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people…

— Slash

Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've…

— Helen Mirren

I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring…

— Liza Campbell

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for…

— Jack White

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot…

— Walter J. Phillips

In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…

— Wilfred Trotter

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather…

— Harold Rosenberg

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he…

— Albert Einstein

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with…

— Stephen Shore

He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty…

— Mike Leigh

Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;…

— Laura Riding

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share…

— George Eliot

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down…

— Francine Prose

All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't…

— Diego Rivera

When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a…

— Martin Scorsese

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

— Edgar Degas

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

— M. F. Husain

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

— Julian Schnabel

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

— Javier Bardem

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

— Norah Jones

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

— Pablo Picasso