Painter Quotes · Page 16

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

— Winston Churchill

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

— Andy Warhol

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

— William Blake

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I'm the seventh child among eight siblings and have always had a gift for art.

— Brahmanandam

A painter knows how to paint, but an artist knows when to stop.

— Jae Hill

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

— Gertrude Stein

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the…

— Kerry James Marshall

Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there…

— Pablo Picasso

“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished…

— Ross Wetzsteon

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

— Virginia Woolf

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you…

— Lady Gaga

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to…

— Harry Connick, Jr

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.…

— Joshua Reynolds

Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how…

— Bo Burnham

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer…

— Isadora Duncan

The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without…

— Eugene Delacroix

I was never exposed to art school. I grew up in an artist's studio. I was exposed a lot of studio time…

— Caio Fonseca

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is…

— Socrates

The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and…

— Mark Rothko

I've never considered soundtracks for what I write. Nor have I considered computer drawing or painting. As a painter, I'm still trying…

— Clarence Major

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. I came out…

— Aldis Hodge

It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be…

— J. E. H. MacDonald

A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of…

— Rajneesh

Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An…

— Paul Cezanne

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find…

— Steven Pressfield

Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At…

— Alexis Carrel

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

— Shaquille O'Neal

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

— Salvador Dali

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

— Paul Cezanne

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

— Edward Dahlberg

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

— Alexander Rodchenko

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

— Damian Loeb

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

— Patti Smith