Painter Quotes · Page 32

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

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be…

— Mark Bradford

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

— Leonid Afremov

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

— Ed O'Brien

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

— Alexander Pope

Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates…

— Nita Engle

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

— Hokusai

The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and…

— Jim Jarmusch

Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all…

— Peter Weir

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise…

— Kenneth Clark

My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for…

— Stefan Sagmeister

Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being…

— Steven Pressfield

Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply…

— Edward Weston

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we…

— David Lynch

I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own…

— Madeleine L'Engle

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have…

— Pablo Picasso

Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm…

— Julia Roberts

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must…

— Lady Gaga

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

— Gordon Parks

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back.…

— Lynda Barry

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they…

— Mordicai Gerstein

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he…

— Lucian Freud

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with…

— Richard Schmid

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

— H. R. Giger

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I…

— Rod Taylor

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

— Yayoi Kusama

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of...

— Michelangelo

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

— Ralph H. Baer

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

— John Constable

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything…

— Wayne Thiebaud

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning…

— Gustav Klimt

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.

— Gerhard Richter

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language.…

— Mark Ryden

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

— Vincent Van Gogh