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

You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or maybe you…

— Brice Marden

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

— Beth Macy

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house…

— Frederic Chopin

My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly…

— Sherwood Anderson

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

— Franz Kline

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

— Wilhelm Reich

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

— George Jones

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went…

— Markus Zusak

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who…

— Josef Albers

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at…

— Frank Stella

“The best way to get out of work is to do it.”

— Donald F. Cummins

Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)

— Austin Kleon

That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

— Sofia Coppola

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

— Derek Bailey

The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

— Len Morgan