Painter Quotes · Page 8

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

— Santiago Calatrava

I'd have loved to be a painter, but I'm very mercurial, so it wouldn't have worked.

— Taylor Russell

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

— Alex Grey

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

— Pierre Alechinsky

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

— Wayne Coyne

“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

— J. G. Ballard

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint…

— Joe Louis

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

— Robert Henri

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will…

— Pablo Picasso

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the…

— Domenico Gnoli

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself…

— Kevin Costner

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much…

— Claude Monet

Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of…

— Marcel Duchamp

What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a…

— Jane Fonda

We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has…

— Maurice Denis

As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough,…

— Georg Baselitz

Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to…

— Wim Wenders

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the…

— Norman Mailer

“The search for this inner truth is the search for beauty. People whose vision does not penetrate beyond the narrow limits of…

— Harold Speed

“If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…

— Stanley Kubrick

But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand…

— Pablo Picasso

In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that…

— Gino Severini

Leon Golub was a painter. He was an artist struggling to make it in the New York City art world, but at…

— Gordon Quinn

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to…

— Caio Fonseca

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,…

— Joshua Reynolds

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

— Howard Hodgkin

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

— Wolf Kahn

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

— Mark Twain

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

— Bill Dedman

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.

— Thom Gunn

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

— Vincent Van Gogh

My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.

— Sam Heughan

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

— Jean Cocteau