Painter Quotes · Page 37

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how…

— Bo Burnham

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after…

— Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand…

— John Hench

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

Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into…

— Semir Zeki

I was never exposed to art school. I grew up in an artist's studio. I was exposed a lot of studio time…

— Caio Fonseca

Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm…

— Julia Roberts

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share…

— George Eliot

The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest…

— Franco Moschino

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

— Hugo Chavez

I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into…

— Pablo Picasso

I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it…

— Marissa Nadler

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Francis Bacon

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I…

— John Dyer

The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will…

— Marc Chagall

I'm a sign painter with no boss.

— Wayne White

Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It…

— Lucian Freud

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without…

— Georg Baselitz

I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

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