Painter Quotes · Page 10

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

— Ken Adam

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

— Abbie Cornish

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

— Wayne Thiebaud

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

— Dick Bruna

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

— Meher Baba

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

— Claude Monet

Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.

— Tom Thomson

My mother always kept us involved in various types of art.

— Dante Basco

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

— Gertrude Stein

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an…

— Kurt Cobain

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as…

— John French Sloan

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it…

— Blaise Pascal

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

— Igor Babailov

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

— Walter J. Phillips

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon…

— David Lynch

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

— Vincent Van Gogh

However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but…

— Vincent Van Gogh

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning…

— Jerry Saltz

It's a completely different way of working when you have your own place for recording. It's like if you were a painter,…

— Kelly Jones

I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in…

— Kenneth Patchen

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman,…

— Edward de Bono

I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the…

— George Grosz

I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a…

— Ralph Goings

Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm…

— Ron White

Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is…

— Pliny the Elder

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I…

— Irving Stone

We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as…

— Ronald Reagan

There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many…

— Rajneesh

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

— Shauna Niequist

Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And…

— Sharon Zukin

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

— Nicholas Roerich

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

— Ernst Gombrich

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.

— Warren MacKenzie

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

— Robert Motherwell

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

— Man Ray

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell