Always Quote by Grayson Perry

“I don't think painters have the answers about a painting except the painting itself. Anyway, a painting has to have some kind of mystery…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

— Roy Lichtenstein

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often…

— Chris Ofili

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”

— Paul Valéry

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we…

— Jon Favreau

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been…

— Anton Corbijn

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of…

— Georg Baselitz

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I…

— Josef Albers

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying…

— Paul Gauguin