Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a…

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

— Gregory Maguire

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators.…

— Zbigniew Herbert

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having…

— Georg Baselitz

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good…

— Michael Cera

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

— Cleo Moore

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

— Titian

The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the…

— Peter Cook

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“But when Ellen throws at me that I have never had to struggle I feel like saying, 'Maybe. But I have had to learn…

— May Sarton

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

— Leonardo da Vinci