Color Quote by Haruki Murakami

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

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

— Igor Babailov

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

— Mason Cooley

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

— Kazimir Malevich

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

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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