I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had…

— Warren MacKenzie

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

— Joe Mantello

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as…

— Dan Fogelberg

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

— Robert Rauschenberg

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas,…

— Agnes Denes

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

— William Blake

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often…

— Gunther Schuller

I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval…

— Mark Kostabi

When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And…

— Robert Wilson

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who…

— Stanley Tucci

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat

“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or…

— Shauna Niequist

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

— Leonardo da Vinci

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

— Marcel Duchamp