Painter Quotes · Page 19

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints...

— Joni Mitchell

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

— Kenneth Clark

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

— Sylvester Stallone

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

— Vincent Van Gogh

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

— Edouard Manet

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for three years.

— Jimmy Bullard

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

— Man Ray

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took…

— Andy Serkis

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope…

— Creed Bratton

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind…

— Joseph Joubert

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

— David Hockney

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

— Theo van Doesburg

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a…

— Georg Baselitz

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will…

— Gertrude Stein

Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If…

— Elizabeth Goudge

I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I…

— Eric Kandel

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it…

— Joshua Reynolds

It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate…

— Pablo Picasso

Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because…

— Frederic Goudy

My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course…

— David Russell

Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the…

— Arundhati Roy

Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set…

— Andre Bazin

It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize.…

— Paul Laffoley

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

This happened to me last week. We're in the process of remodeling our house; we've been doing it for a while now.…

— Jeff Foxworthy

Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads…

— Robert Venosa

In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of…

— Horace Walpole

Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

— Vincente Minnelli

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.

— will.i.am

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

— Mark Twain

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