Painter Quotes · Page 49

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

In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of…

— Horace Walpole

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a…

— Rube Goldberg

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Pablo Picasso

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

— Sylvester Stallone

It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize.…

— Paul Laffoley

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of…

— John Constable

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous…

— Robert Longo

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

— Lee Krasner

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown…

— Aleksa Palladino

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to…

— Andy Summers

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

— Harry Crews

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

— Sara Genn

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

— John Ashbery

As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.

— Troy Garity

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn…

— Walter J. Phillips

Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it,…

— George Lucas

I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got…

— Francis Bacon