Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks… — Claude Monet
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself… — J. E. H. MacDonald
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. — Claude Monet
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature. — Alfred Sisley
Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art. — Richard Wollheim
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art. — Rembrandt
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above… — Gustav Klimt
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening -… — Gustav Klimt
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist. — Agnes Varda
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich
The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many. — Washington Allston
The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for… — Washington Allston
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. — Helen Frankenthaler
There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one. — Mary Cassatt
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are… — Ralph Goings
I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a… — Ralph Goings
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. — Bruce Campbell
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. — Lorenz Hart
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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