Artist Quote by Christian Bobin

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

— Marcel Duchamp

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.

— Anna Halprin

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter…

— John Berger

I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well.

— Jisoo

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

— Robert Rauschenberg

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas,…

— Agnes Denes

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

— William Blake

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often…

— Gunther Schuller

I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval…

— Mark Kostabi

When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And…

— Robert Wilson

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who…

— Stanley Tucci

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat