Painter Quotes · Page 2

I come from a family of artists.

— Katherine Moennig

I think of me being a painter eventually.

— Syd Barrett

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

— John Ashbery

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

— Joni Mitchell

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

— Hugo Chavez

I used to think I was going to be a painter.

— Sexyy Red

I will be a historical painter.

— William Allan

I wanted to be a painter.

— Max Cannon

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

— Mary Astor

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

— Stacy Martin

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.

— Stella McCartney

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

— Mark Twain

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

— Howard Hodgkin

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

— Lee Krasner

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that…

— Robert Rauschenberg

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and…

— Walter J. Phillips

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

— Laura Gilpin

I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be…

— Mark Ryden

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone…

— Dorothy Parker

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy…

— Robert Henri

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an…

— Mike Shinoda

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

As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,…

— Walter Keane

The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as…

— Willa Cather

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

But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand…

— Pablo Picasso

The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship,…

— Michel Seuphor

I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as…

— Anonymous

I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres…

— J. D. Sedding

I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure…

— Nelson Shanks

I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has…

— Guity Novin

Once we actually have the production script after many rewrites, at that point is when I start to decide what the look…

— Pedro Almodovar