Painter Quotes · Page 18

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

— George Jones

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

— Hans Arp

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

— Edward Ruscha

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

— Frank Stella

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

— Eugene Delacroix

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

— Cary Elwes

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

— Lorenz Hart

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

In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and…

— Alexander Rodchenko

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've…

— Syd Barrett

These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that…

— Guity Novin

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

Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the…

— Twyla Tharp

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

'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 work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.…

— Ciaran Carson

I wouldn't recommend it, because art school is a funny business. Yes, if you can find a situation where they'll give you…

— Sigourney Weaver

The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society:…

— Jacob Bronowski

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

— David Hockney

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

— Agnes Varda

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

— Harold Rosenberg

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