Backdrop Quote by Loretta Lux

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

— Nir Hod

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium…

— John Dyer

I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the Art Institute…

— Robert Indiana

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

— John Gutmann

I don't consider myself a painter. I think of myself more as an artist who uses paintings rather than simply makes them. Especially with…

— Landon Metz

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

— Chuck Berry

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

— Roger Deakins

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me,…

— Martin Mull

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in…

— Chadwick Boseman

I think of me being a painter eventually.

— Syd Barrett