Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go. — Vincent Van Gogh
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance,… — Blaise Pascal
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he… — James A. Baldwin
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with… — Wassily Kandinsky
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer… — Andreas Feininger
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood,… — Andreas Feininger
For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story. — Sonia Rykiel
I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter... — Vincent Van Gogh
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,… — Oscar Wilde
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind… — Mark Rothko
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory… — Donald Barthelme
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me — Norah Jones
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's… — Pablo Picasso
Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two. — Sergei Bongart
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at… — Balthus
My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for language, but was… — Stefan Sagmeister
The modern painterâ€¦is an excellent couturier — Joris-Karl Huysmans
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
I'm a painter first, and a musician second. — Joni Mitchell

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