Painter Quotes · Page 10

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

— Susan Sontag

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

— Benjamin West

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“You can't break my heart and call the lines you write on art.”

— Laura Chouette

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

— Lynn Whitfield

It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits!

— Paterson Ewen

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture…

— Henri Matisse

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And…

— Larry Sanders

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter…

— Ben Shahn

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

— Pierre Alechinsky

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

— Paul Strisik

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to…

— Berenice Abbott

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the…

— Rumi

I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with…

— May Sarton

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is…

— Franz Kline

The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on…

— Walter J. Phillips

But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't…

— J. D. Salinger

When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to."…

— Lori Petty

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which…

— David Blaine

It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds…

— William Morris Hunt

All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that…

— Jackson Pollock

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong…

— Pablo Picasso

Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls…

— e. e. cummings

The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they…

— Jack Klugman

If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked…

— Emma Thompson

Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by…

— Rajneesh

Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their…

— Stephan Kinsella

I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor…

— Steve Guttenberg

King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to…

— Horace Walpole

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

— Horace

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

— Donald O'Connor

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

— Paul Cezanne

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

— Alfred Sisley

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

— William Butler Yeats

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

— Kenneth Noland

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs