Painter Quotes · Page 12

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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

— Winston Churchill

My family is filled with amazingly talented painters, musicians, vocalists.

— Mya

Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.

— Victor Vasarely

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

— Andy Warhol

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.

— Thom Gunn

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

— David Hockney

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a…

— Georg Baselitz

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

— Theo van Doesburg

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

— Mark Twain

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

— Michael Craig-Martin

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took…

— Andy Serkis

I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of…

— Frans de Waal

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

— Alberto Moravia

We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has…

— Maurice Denis

I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from…

— Warren MacKenzie

The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch…

— Ken Adam

I don't consider myself a painter. I think of myself more as an artist who uses paintings rather than simply makes them.…

— Landon Metz

But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful…

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of…

— James Elkins

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the…

— Joseph Plaskett

It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people…

— Slash

In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His…

— James Keller

“The search for this inner truth is the search for beauty. People whose vision does not penetrate beyond the narrow limits of…

— Harold Speed

I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got…

— Francis Bacon

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the…

— Lillian Hellman

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more…

— Arthur Koestler

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so…

— Leonardo da Vinci

...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer.…

— Gregory Maguire

What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears…

— Pablo Picasso

My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.

— Sam Heughan

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

— Jean Cocteau

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

— Gertrude Atherton

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

— Bill Dedman

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

— Fred Armisen

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

— Patti Smith

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

— Damian Loeb