Painter Quotes · Page 9

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

— George Carlin

“You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas”

— John Green

My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.

— Martine Syms

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

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

— Troy Garity

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

— Robert Rauschenberg

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

— Matthew Quick

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an…

— Kurt Cobain

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

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it…

— Blaise Pascal

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

— Igor Babailov

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

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing…

— Peter Brook

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

— Mason Cooley

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

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning…

— Jerry Saltz

It's a completely different way of working when you have your own place for recording. It's like if you were a painter,…

— Kelly Jones

I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in…

— Kenneth Patchen

“The love of the painter standing alone and staring, staring at the great coloured surface he is making. Standing with him in…

— Mervyn Peake

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,…

— John Locke

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes…

— Walt Whitman

I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the…

— J. G. Ballard

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is…

— Ellen McLaughlin

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes…

— Ray Bradbury

In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His…

— James Keller

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

— Harold Speed

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

— Hartley Coleridge

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

— Pablo Picasso

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

— William Hazlitt

“I wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

— James Gray