Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his true… — Carlo Carra
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter. — Mark Bradford
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. — Paolo Veronese
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself. — Edward Dahlberg
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. — Josef Albers
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was… — Josef Albers
There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves… — Fernand Point
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be… — Tina Weymouth
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images… — John Hench
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a… — Harold Rosenberg
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem… — William Kingdon Clifford
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer… — Isak Dinesen
I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a… — Randy Pausch
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both… — Robert Motherwell
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. — Robert Motherwell
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which,… — Robert Indiana
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud
Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man… — Gino Bartali
Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by. — James Rosenquist
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time… — Alexis Carrel

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