Painter Quotes · Page 5

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

— Wayne Dyer

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

— Joe Mantello

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

— Paul Cezanne

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

— Washington Allston

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of...

— Michelangelo

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

— Beth Macy

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.

— Gerhard Richter

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

— Gertrude Stein

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as…

— John French Sloan

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Georg Baselitz

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether…

— Edvard Munch

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon…

— David Lynch

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

— Vincent Van Gogh

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they…

— Fred Armisen

I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm…

— Vik Muniz

The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide…

— Joshua Reynolds

Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago.…

— Anonymous

“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter…

— Rebecca Solnit

I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this…

— Joel-Peter Witkin

However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that…

— John Constable

It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected…

— Leopold Stokowski

Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be…

— Umberto Boccioni

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the…

— Lillian Hellman

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more…

— Arthur Koestler

...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer.…

— Gregory Maguire

What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears…

— Pablo Picasso

The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the…

— John Ruskin

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and…

— Edward Ruscha

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

— Black Francis

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

— Andy Warhol

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

— Paolo Veronese

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

— Alexander Pope

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

— Bruce Campbell

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud