Painter Quotes

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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.

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.