Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic.… — Joe Bradley
Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in… — Charlie Day
An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary,… — Joseph Plaskett
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more… — John Paul Caponigro
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and… — Georg Baselitz
To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not… — Pablo Picasso
As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. — Henry George Bohn
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments… — Alexander Pope
I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter. — Kristin Bauer van Straten
Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for… — Stevie Jackson
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your… — Jodie Foster
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for… — Lucian Freud
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. — Lucian Freud
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able… — Lady Gaga
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. — Vincent Van Gogh
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality… — Vincent Van Gogh
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house… — Rube Goldberg
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a… — Ray Comfort
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. — Edgar Degas

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