Painter Quotations | Page 2

I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.

It was a game where I thought both teams played hard. I think Matt Painter is doing a just unbelievable job. You lose four starters and you can still put a team on the floor that competes and plays hard and causes problems. I don't know another team in the country that can lose four starters and compete at all.

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

I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There's a calligraphic element to it... it's about the texture of lines on the page.

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

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

I'm an outdoor painter painting from life. All of my paintings are oil paintings. They are characterized by short brush strokes and bright light and use of complimentary colors.

In some places it's pretty hard to even find another china painter - much less a teacher. A lady named Elvira Engelmann was one of the first ladies in this area to teach.

I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.

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

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

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

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

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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

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

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

I have never been much of a painter.

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

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

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

I cannot explain to another the joy and the happiness I get out of teaching. It is more than a profession, an occupation, a vocation, a struggle; it is a passion, for I love to teach. ... I love to teach as a painter loves to paint, as a singer loves to sing, and as a musician loves to play. Every strong man loves to run a race.

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

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.

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

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.

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

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

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

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

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

I wanted to be a painter.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.

And it may be that Lautrec is a very different artist than some people anticipated. People came knowing his posters of the Moulin Rouge, but they then discovered that he's a very accomplished painter with a depth of humanity that wasn't known to most people.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

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

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

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

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

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

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.

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

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

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

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

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

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

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

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

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

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

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.

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

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...

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

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

I'm a sign painter with no boss.

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

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

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

My mother said to me, ''If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.'' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. --Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but as you know the Impressionists have already got a stronger color than Manet. This painter of the future- I can't imagine him doing

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

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

The painter strives and competes with nature.

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

It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

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

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

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

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

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

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

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

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

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

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

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

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.