Painter Quotes

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

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

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

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

I will be a historical painter.

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.