Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 559 authors

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer. — Michael Cera
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are… — Robert Delaunay
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. — Philip Guston
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. — Howard Hodgkin
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to… — Markus Zusak
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experienceâ€¦ many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to… — Robert Adams
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.' — N. Scott Momaday
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the… — Thornton Willis
The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer.… — Ken Adam
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can… — Keegan-Michael Key
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can. — Jean-Jacques Annaud
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him.… — Jean-Jacques Annaud
The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination. — Robert Breault
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for… — Robert Breault
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk — William Butler Yeats
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and… — Agnes Denes
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. — Horace
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn… — Horace
As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great… — James Whistler

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