Apprenticeship Quote by John Constable

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience…

— Edward Lear

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

— Edouard Manet

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

— Georg Baselitz

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not…

— Anonymous

I have always loved painting and I did it from a very young age.

— Brad Mondo

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

— Kim Weston

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

— Claude Monet

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome…

— Charles Saatchi

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only…

— Warren MacKenzie

“He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects;…

— Annie Dillard

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out…

— Edvard Munch