Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make… — William Morris Hunt
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. — Frank Auerbach
The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to… — Anthony Quinn
The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have… — Emily Carr
If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso. — Shaquille O'Neal
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically,… — Nathalie Sarraute
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. — Jenny Holzer
My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles… — Roberto Cavalli
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because… — Billy Childish
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint… — Anne Archer
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting… — Fred Durst
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer. — Caio Fonseca
I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back. — Paula Fox
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any… — Troy Garity
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. — Josef Albers
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all… — Josef Albers
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought… — Thomas Cole
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once… — Jane Campion
I wanted to be a painter. — Max Cannon

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