Quotes about Painter

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Votes: 3

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess. Votes: 3

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? Votes: 3

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. Votes: 3

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog. Votes: 3

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Votes: 3

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Votes: 3

Pure souls, didn't I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter. Votes: 3

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell. Votes: 3

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Votes: 3

Every good painter paints what he is. Votes: 2

Color and I are one. I am a painter. Votes: 2

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. Votes: 2

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Votes: 2

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer. Votes: 2

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. Votes: 2

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. Votes: 2

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. Votes: 2

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. Votes: 2

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun Votes: 2

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. Votes: 2

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. Votes: 2

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition. Votes: 2

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. Votes: 2

I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it. Votes: 2

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. Votes: 1

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. Votes: 1

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. Votes: 1

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. Votes: 1

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Votes: 1

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. Votes: 1

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer. Votes: 1

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself. Votes: 1

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting. Votes: 1

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. Votes: 1

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. Votes: 1

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. Votes: 1

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

you draw(the painter) Votes: 0

I am not a juicy painter. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a painter. Votes: 0

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Votes: 0

The painter strives and competes with nature. Votes: 0

I'm a sign painter with no boss. Votes: 0

Every good painter paints what he is Votes: 0

A painter is a choreographer of space. Votes: 0

The painter’s instrument is his armchair. Votes: 0

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject! Votes: 0

The modern painter"¦is an excellent couturier Votes: 0

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter. Votes: 0

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore? Votes: 0

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney. Votes: 0

The successful painter is continually painting still life. Votes: 0

I'm a painter first, and a musician second. Votes: 0

I think of me being a painter eventually. Votes: 0

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know. Votes: 0

I have never been much of a painter. Votes: 0

A poet is a painter of the soul. Votes: 0

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up. Votes: 0

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist. Votes: 0

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all. Votes: 0

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen. Votes: 0

A kiss from my mother made me a painter. Votes: 0

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little. Votes: 0

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. Votes: 0

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector. Votes: 0

I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter. Votes: 0

You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings. Votes: 0

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. Votes: 0

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. Votes: 0

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. Votes: 0

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso. Votes: 0

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor. Votes: 0

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer. Votes: 0

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang. Votes: 0

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere. Votes: 0

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red. Votes: 0

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share. Votes: 0

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. Votes: 0

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. Votes: 0

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual. Votes: 0

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter Votes: 0

I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas. Votes: 0

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also. Votes: 0

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work. Votes: 0

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter. Votes: 0

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot. Votes: 0

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter. Votes: 0

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. Votes: 0

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter. Votes: 0

I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. Votes: 0

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature? Votes: 0

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk Votes: 0

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. Votes: 0

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. Votes: 0

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. Votes: 0

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet. Votes: 0

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking. Votes: 0

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath. Votes: 0

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. Votes: 0

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination. Votes: 0

The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth. Votes: 0

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. Votes: 0

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that. Votes: 0

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost. Votes: 0

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life. Votes: 0

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved. Votes: 0

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. Votes: 0

The good painter is the one who buries a color every day. Votes: 0

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter. Votes: 0

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter. Votes: 0

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter. Votes: 0

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision. Votes: 0

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter. Votes: 0

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints... Votes: 0

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. Votes: 0

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin. Votes: 0

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter. Votes: 0

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself. Votes: 0

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many. Votes: 0

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint. Votes: 0

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing. Votes: 0

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone. Votes: 0

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. Votes: 0

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop. Votes: 0

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. Votes: 0

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater. Votes: 0

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. Votes: 0

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. Votes: 0

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely. Votes: 0

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. Votes: 0

Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke. Votes: 0

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little. Votes: 0

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. Votes: 0

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter. Votes: 0

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter. Votes: 0

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. Votes: 0

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind. Votes: 0

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him. Votes: 0

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. Votes: 0

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter. Votes: 0

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter. Votes: 0

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army. Votes: 0

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter. Votes: 0

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. Votes: 0

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either. Votes: 0

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point. Votes: 0

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself. Votes: 0

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. Votes: 0

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others. Votes: 0

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. Votes: 0

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. Votes: 0

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. Votes: 0

It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits! Votes: 0

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. Votes: 0

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. Votes: 0

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. Votes: 0

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul. Votes: 0

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality. Votes: 0

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. Votes: 0

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. Votes: 0

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art. Votes: 0

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. Votes: 0

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. Votes: 0

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature. Votes: 0

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two. Votes: 0

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. Votes: 0

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence. Votes: 0

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. Votes: 0

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock. Votes: 0

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit. Votes: 0

Just as a painter paints,and a ponderer ponders,a writer writes,and a wanderer wanders. Votes: 0

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. Votes: 0

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter. Votes: 0

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. Votes: 0

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well. Votes: 0

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. Votes: 0

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. Votes: 0

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas. Votes: 0

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... Votes: 0

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything. Votes: 0

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. Votes: 0

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across? Votes: 0

The painter paints his brushes blackThrough the canvas runs a crackPortrait of the pain never answers back. Votes: 0

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. Votes: 0

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy. Votes: 0

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. Votes: 0

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush. Votes: 0

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter... Votes: 0

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso. Votes: 0

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. Votes: 0

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. Votes: 0

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting. Votes: 0

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine. Votes: 0

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. Votes: 0

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. Votes: 0

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. Votes: 0

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. Votes: 0

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. Votes: 0

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. Votes: 0

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter. Votes: 0

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine... Votes: 0

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. Votes: 0

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. Votes: 0

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. Votes: 0

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. Votes: 0

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things. Votes: 0

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. Votes: 0

The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea. Votes: 0

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty. Votes: 0

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life. Votes: 0

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it. Votes: 0

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week! Votes: 0

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one. Votes: 0

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. Votes: 0

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief. Votes: 0

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill. Votes: 0

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always. Votes: 0

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. Votes: 0

You are the artistic painter of your success. Paint your life day-by-day, into the masterpiece of excellence you want. Votes: 0

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. Votes: 0

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. Votes: 0

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. Votes: 0

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. Votes: 0

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. Votes: 0

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. Votes: 0

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. Votes: 0

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer. Votes: 0

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. Votes: 0

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction. Votes: 0

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States. Votes: 0

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. Votes: 0

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter. Votes: 0

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. Votes: 0

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. Votes: 0

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. Votes: 0

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter. Votes: 0

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language. Votes: 0

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. Votes: 0

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. Votes: 0

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. Votes: 0

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance. Votes: 0

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. Votes: 0

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries. Votes: 0

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. Votes: 0

The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others. Votes: 0

You are the artistic painter of your success. Paint your life day-by-day, into a masterpiece of excellence over a lifetime. Votes: 0

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. Votes: 0

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. Votes: 0

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall. Votes: 0

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Votes: 0

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. Votes: 0

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement Votes: 0

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. Votes: 0

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries. Votes: 0

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. Votes: 0

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali Votes: 0

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. Votes: 0

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting. Votes: 0

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. Votes: 0

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. Votes: 0

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. Votes: 0

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. Votes: 0

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint. Votes: 0

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? Votes: 0

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I. Votes: 0

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model... Votes: 0

I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend. Votes: 0

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter. Votes: 0

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. Votes: 0

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Votes: 0

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. Votes: 0

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life. Votes: 0

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming Votes: 0

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. Votes: 0

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people. Votes: 0

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well. Votes: 0

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me Votes: 0

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. Votes: 0

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. Votes: 0

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) Votes: 0

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now. Votes: 0

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. Votes: 0

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer Votes: 0

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? Votes: 0

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting... Votes: 0

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. Votes: 0

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter. Votes: 0

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. Votes: 0

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. Votes: 0

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. Votes: 0

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. Votes: 0

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. Votes: 0

On the canvas of life, you are the creative painter of your success. Paint your life into a wonderful masterpiece of excellence. Votes: 0

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. Votes: 0

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place. Votes: 0

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. Votes: 0

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way. Votes: 0

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach. Votes: 0

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. Votes: 0

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. Votes: 0

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. Votes: 0

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. Votes: 0

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. Votes: 0

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. Votes: 0

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown. Votes: 0

Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty weird. Votes: 0

My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters.... ...I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... ...I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club Votes: 0

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man. Votes: 0

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. Votes: 0

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. Votes: 0

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it. Votes: 0

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, "How did I do it? Votes: 0

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his. Votes: 0

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter. Votes: 0

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind. Votes: 0

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for. Votes: 0

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story. Votes: 0

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. Votes: 0

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. Votes: 0

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane Votes: 0

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem Votes: 0

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter. Votes: 0

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs. Votes: 0

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by. Votes: 0

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits. Votes: 0

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? Votes: 0

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back. Votes: 0

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options... Votes: 0

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art. Votes: 0

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it. Votes: 0

I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all. Votes: 0

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath. Votes: 0

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar. Votes: 0

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. Votes: 0

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. Votes: 0

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter. Votes: 0

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him. Votes: 0

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister. Votes: 0

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want? Votes: 0

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. Votes: 0

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged. Votes: 0

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us... Votes: 0

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do. Votes: 0

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. Votes: 0

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value. Votes: 0

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt. Votes: 0

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers. Votes: 0

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion. Votes: 0

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself. Votes: 0

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore. Votes: 0

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance. Votes: 0

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on. Votes: 0

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform. Votes: 0

I wasnt 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. Votes: 0

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art. Votes: 0

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter. Votes: 0

When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes. Votes: 0

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me. Votes: 0

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.' Votes: 0

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go. Votes: 0

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur. Votes: 0

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid. Votes: 0

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan. Votes: 0

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous. Votes: 0

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary. Votes: 0

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs. Votes: 0

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful. Votes: 0

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing. Votes: 0

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been. Votes: 0

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see. Votes: 0

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking. Votes: 0

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Cézanne through the 1950s. Votes: 0

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work. Votes: 0

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me. Votes: 0

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter. Votes: 0

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball. Votes: 0

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces. Votes: 0

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box. Votes: 0

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me. Votes: 0

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece. Votes: 0

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind. Votes: 0

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world. Votes: 0

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. Votes: 0

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you. Votes: 0

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas. Votes: 0

I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music. Votes: 0

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us. Votes: 0

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life. Votes: 0

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it. Votes: 0

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism. Votes: 0

Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past. Votes: 0

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons! Votes: 0

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles. Votes: 0

Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . . Votes: 0

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas. Votes: 0

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself. Votes: 0

Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now! Votes: 0

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet. Votes: 0

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. Votes: 0

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action Votes: 0

It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance... Votes: 0

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes. Votes: 0

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing. Votes: 0

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work. Votes: 0

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation. Votes: 0

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. Votes: 0

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else. Votes: 0

Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. Votes: 0

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. Votes: 0

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. Votes: 0

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man. Votes: 0

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. Votes: 0

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting. Votes: 0

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion. Votes: 0

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. Votes: 0

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality. Votes: 0

You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or maybe you can nowadays. But it's an endeavor. Votes: 0

The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on. Votes: 0

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art. Votes: 0

The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room. Votes: 0

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold. Votes: 0

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something. Votes: 0

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch. Votes: 0

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. Votes: 0

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact. Votes: 0

No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work. Votes: 0

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette. Votes: 0

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. Votes: 0

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that. Votes: 0

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers. Votes: 0

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors. Votes: 0

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies. Votes: 0

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me. Votes: 0

I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building. Votes: 0

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough. Votes: 0

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish. Votes: 0

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches. Votes: 0

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure. Votes: 0

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out... Votes: 0

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that. Votes: 0

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn. Votes: 0

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. Votes: 0

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.' Votes: 0

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0