Painter Quotes

891 quotes by 561 authors

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me… — Lenny Breau
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painterâ€¦I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've doneâ€¦But it didn't… — Syd Barrett
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. — Paul Signac
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and… — Edgar Degas
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. — Edouard Manet
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali — Salvador Dali
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth,… — Carl Safina
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. — John Constable
I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasnâ€™t going wellâ€¦ He asked me to come to… — Morton Feldman
O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of… — Stephen Shore
We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill. — James Whistler
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. — Pablo Picasso
A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share. — Augustus John
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely. — Vincent Van Gogh
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't… — Ed McBain
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy,… — John French Sloan
Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found… — W G Sebald
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. — Berthe Morisot

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