Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor. — Sylvester Stallone
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. — Gertrude Stein
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of… — Twyla Tharp
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times,… — Lewis Thomas
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. — Leonardo da Vinci
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. — Paul Weller
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on… — James Whistler
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. — Ron White
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence,… — Pablo Picasso
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. — Leonardo da Vinci
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it. — Robert Henri
I'm a painter in my dreams, you know. — Kurt Vonnegut
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of… — Kurt Vonnegut
kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness… — Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see… — Chuck Palahniuk
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he… — Henry David Thoreau
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is,… — Vincent Van Gogh
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of… — Jamaica Kincaid
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer. — Andy Warhol

Who Wrote These Painter Quotes

561 authors contributed a total of 891 Painter Quotes, led by these top contributors: