Painter Quotes · Page 13

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

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

— James Whistler

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

— Alexander Rodchenko

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

— Edward Dahlberg

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

— Shaquille O'Neal

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

— Salvador Dali

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

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a…

— Brice Marden

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind…

— Joseph Joubert

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope…

— Creed Bratton

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the…

— Rose Kennedy

I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second…

— Alyson Richman

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for…

— Criss Jami

There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot…

— Walter J. Phillips

In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for…

— Jack White

I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring…

— Liza Campbell

It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…

— Wilfred Trotter

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

The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the…

— John Ruskin

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and…

— Edward Ruscha

The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is…

— Swami Vivekananda

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…

— Harry Crews

Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter;…

— Max Beckmann

Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.

— Dorothea Tanning

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

— Todd Hido

The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one.

— Hemistich

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

— Chris Ware

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

— Joni Mitchell

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'

— Peter Malkin

The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.

— Roger Bissiere