Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far… — Dorothy Fields
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and… — Andreas Feininger
Michael Jordan didnâ€™t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didnâ€™t become a great painter because he dreamed… — Jack D. Schwager
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane — Leonardo da Vinci
If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week! — L. S. Lowry
You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings. — L. S. Lowry
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop… — Bo Burnham
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art. — Sadie Frost
I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter — Todd Hido
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous,"… — Joan D. Chittister
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. — Bob Ross
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I… — William T. Wiley
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate… — Walter Gropius
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter… — Robert Breault
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 work, not whether… — Kerry James Marshall
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All… — Allan Kaprow

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