When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see…

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

— Sylvia Kristel

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

— Norman Spinrad

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

— Paul Rand

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

— Faith Ringgold

“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

“What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?”

— Gregory Maguire

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the…

— James Elkins

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

— Bernard Malamud

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 paintings without…

— Jasper Johns

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of…

— Georg Baselitz

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I…

— Josef Albers

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter…

— John Berger

I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well.

— Jisoo