Painter Quotes

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.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

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.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

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.

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

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.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

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

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.

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.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

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