Painter Quotes · Page 18

The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

— Nicholas Roerich

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

— Wayne Thiebaud

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

— Dick Bruna

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

— Meher Baba

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

— Ken Adam

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

— Chali 2na

I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

— Kehinde Wiley

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

— Pablo Picasso

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty…

— Betty Dodson

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter…

— Romare Bearden

I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of…

— Frans de Waal

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

— Alberto Moravia

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a…

— Brice Marden

Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of…

— Henri Matisse

In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the…

— Sergei Prokofiev

It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so…

— Pablo Picasso

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running…

— Virginia Woolf

I didn't know anything about film when I first started - I was a painter - but I [always] felt that sound…

— David Lynch

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters.…

— Emily Carr

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about…

— Stuart Pearson Wright

You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named…

— Stephen Fry

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he…

— Henri Matisse

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter…

— Joni Mitchell

I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning…

— Chris Ware

Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" "That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange." "Orange?"…

— Suzanne Collins

Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a…

— Alexander Rodchenko

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

— Abbie Cornish

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

— Sergei Bongart

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

— M. F. Husain

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

— St. Lucia

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

— Randall Jarrell

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

— Edgar Degas

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

— Hideo Kojima

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles