Painter Quotes · Page 29

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and…

— Loretta Lux

When we go back to Samoa, where my mother was born, we always check out the art by local artists.

— Timothy F. Cahill

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more…

— Charles Saatchi

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have…

— Robert Rauschenberg

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden…

— Fernand Point

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men…

— Sherwood Anderson

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter,…

— John Ruskin

I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring…

— Liza Campbell

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for…

— Jack White

When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,…

— Pierre Alechinsky

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather…

— Harold Rosenberg

There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful…

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not…All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or…

— Yves Klein

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of…

— James Elkins

Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably…

— Charlie Day

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

— Lucian Freud

The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present…

— Walter Gropius

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a…

— Frank Auerbach

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many…

— Lucas Grabeel

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were…

— Larry Rivers

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is…

— G. H. Hardy

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well…

— Mark Rothko

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the…

— Winston Churchill

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

— Walt Disney

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

— Frank O'Hara

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I…

— John Lithgow

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but…

— John Edgar Park

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

— Josh Hartnett

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands...

— Georgia O'Keeffe

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

— Woody Allen

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

— Anonymous

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must…

— Charles Tomlinson

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at…

— Maya Lin

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

— Robert Motherwell