Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of…

— Winston Churchill

“I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.”

— Mildred Aldrich

“I want you to know that you will not be alone in your loneliness,” he said. Her tear-filled eyes welled over. “You will be…

— Lisa Valdez

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

— Mason Cooley

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

— Kazimir Malevich

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been…

— Anton Corbijn

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

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

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

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying…

— Paul Gauguin

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

— William Blake

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