Artist Quote by Ari Shaffir

“Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your…

— Michael Muhammad Knight

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

— George Woodcock

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”

— Paul Valéry

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we…

— Jon Favreau

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been…

— Anton Corbijn

“Great British painters, one might say, imitate the proverbial behaviour of buses. None come along for a century or more, then two at the…

— Martin Gayford

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of…

— Georg Baselitz

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I…

— Josef Albers

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying…

— Paul Gauguin

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

— William Blake

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat