Painter Quotes · Page 14

Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter…

— Joni Mitchell

We get better product when the focus is on the fans and the artists - all artists; musical artists; singers, the graphic…

— David Banner

I used to think I was going to be a painter.

— Sexyy Red

There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green…

— Pliny the Elder

A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer…

— Harry S. Broudy

A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never…

— Carlos Gavito

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more…

— Charles Saatchi

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

— Gertrude Atherton

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

— Sergei Bongart

My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple…

— Charles Mingus

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were…

— Mary Pope Osborne

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

— George Eliot

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

You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing…

— Rachel Kushner

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to…

— Berenice Abbott

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets…

— David Milne

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for…

— Edward Weston

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

— Horace

I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold…

— Tony Tasset

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

— Warren MacKenzie