Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. — William Allan
I will be a historical painter. — William Allan
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. — Vincente Minnelli
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson… — Robert Morgan
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which… — Lucian Freud
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter. — Kenneth Noland
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. — Caspar David Friedrich
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of… — John Dyer
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. — Ed O'Brien
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. — Robert Baldwin Ross
I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic… — Gus Van Sant
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to… — Damien Hirst
I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on… — Andy Serkis
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted… — Rainn Wilson
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. — Tunde Adebimpe
As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear. — Troy Garity
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll… — Pablo Picasso
I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was… — Tommy Cooper
I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor. — Henri Matisse
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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