Painters Quotes

“Every painting tells a story.”

— Adrienne Posey

Painters 'see' the world; musicians 'hear' it.

— John Densmore

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

— Hans Hofmann

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

— Paolo Veronese

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

“Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.”

— Amit Kalantri

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

Painters used red like spice

— Derek Jarman

“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Peter Schjeldahl

A thousand painters can paint for a 1,000 years, but can't make a work of art as beautiful as you.

— Anonymous

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

“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least…

— John Constable

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

— Robert Rauschenberg

“Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence…

— Jean Renoir

“There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but…

— Karl Wiggins

There are painters that can change the sun into a yellow blot, but there are others, that due to their talent and…

— Pablo Picasso

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

“Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he…

— Robert Galbraith

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because…

— Charles Baudelaire

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are…

— Tyler Cowen

Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as…

— Wynn Bullock

You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and…

— Al Hirschfeld

“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become…

— Honore de Balzac

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and…

— Edward Ruscha

It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds…

— William Morris Hunt

“Why do you paint, Akram?” I asked. “What—” “Close your eyes, Sebastian,” he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them…

— Ahmad Ardalan

“When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar,…

— David Salle

“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Countless tales and songs had been written about the cliffs of Iro and Nane: they'd been painted by two lovers, one who…

— Sarah Beth Durst

“To love is a natural instinct. To be loved is “something”. To be loved like crazy, like their life depends on you…

— Daya Kudari

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the…

— Seth Godin

“Thanks for your encouraging words. But I know the grim realities of being an artist. Most of us would never make a…

— Abhaidev