Painter Quotes · Page 17

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

— Hideo Kojima

Life is a blank canvas, and you're the painter.

— Blake Toth

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

— Jenny Holzer

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst

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

— Annie Parisse

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

— Francis Bacon

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

— Edgar Degas

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

— Norman Spinrad

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with…

— Carolee Schneemann

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had…

— Alfred Sisley

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen…

— Anonymous

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm…

— Grace Slick

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

— Paula Scher

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your…

— Richard Schmid

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that…

— Jean Dubuffet

I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way,…

— Shailene Woodley

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the…

— Oscar Wilde

I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't…

— Michael Franti

All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of…

— Georg Baselitz

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is…

— John Ruskin

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our…

— Lewis Thomas

Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact…

— Paula Scher

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are…

— William Morris Hunt

He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty…

— Mike Leigh

When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation.…

— Rebecca Miller

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

I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in…

— Martin Scorsese

'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in…

— Plato

If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why…

— Michael Haneke

It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head…

— Erica Jong

When I first came to New York, I knew some painters older than myself. I was kind of the kid who was…

— David Salle

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

— Julian Schnabel

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

— Javier Bardem

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

— Pablo Picasso

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

— Marcel Proust

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

— Norah Jones

I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a…

— Colleen Atwood