Painter Quotes · Page 4

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

— Paul Klee

“Mother nature is the greatest painter.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

I come from a very artsy family.

— Ayesha Curry

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

— M. F. Husain

A painter is a choreographer of space.

— Barnett Newman

Art is a line around your thoughts.

— Gustav Klimt

Both my parents were painters.

— Jason Momoa

I have never been much of a painter.

— Christian Marclay

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

— Lynn Whitfield

It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits!

— Paterson Ewen

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

— Paul Cezanne

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

— Horace

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

— Donald O'Connor

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

— William Butler Yeats

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

— Alfred Sisley

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

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

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the…

— Rose Kennedy

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a…

— Feist

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects,…

— M. C. Escher

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

— Paul Cezanne

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of…

— James Elkins

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not…All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or…

— Yves Klein

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the…

— Joseph Plaskett

I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who…

— Georges Braque

But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful…

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

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

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

— Liza Campbell

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

He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If…

— James Joyce

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as…

— Henry David Thoreau

My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the…

— Stephen Beal

Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…

— Howard Zinn

In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a…

— Stanley Kubrick

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The…

— Walter Gropius

I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar,…

— David Salle

“A young house painter who fails miserably in his choice of profession is capable, also for a period of twenty years, of…

— Wilhelm Reich