Able Quote by Stuart Pearson Wright

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though…

— Quentin Blake

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile…

— Claude Monet

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of…

— Bridget Riley

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

— H. R. Giger

I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

— Marcel Duchamp

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

— Joni Mitchell

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

— Francis Bacon

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can…

— Brian Johnson

On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself…

— Teju Cole

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I…

— Black Francis

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house…

— Frederic Chopin

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

— Claude Monet