Painter Quotes

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

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.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Every good painter paints what he is.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.