Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit. — Jack Levine
Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well. — Sigmar Polke
I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't… — Franka Potente
Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when… — Michael Pitt
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was… — Emanuel Steward
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith
I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I… — Andy Summers
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was… — Peter S. Beagle
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. — Norman Spinrad
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as… — Minoru Yamasaki
Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you… — Criss Jami
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I have never been much of a painter. — Christian Marclay
If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter. — Joe Mantello
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to… — Eva Zeisel
As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that… — Gerhard Richter
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by… — Gerhard Richter
I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling… — William Faulkner
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I… — Roger Ebert

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