Top 1200 Painter Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I have never been much of a painter.

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

I'm a painter in sound.

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

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

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

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

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

I am not a juicy painter.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

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

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

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

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

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

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

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

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

I'm a sign painter with no boss.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art school. I didn't have that go to art school and then get a gallery. It's more like, how deep is your inner library to cull from. It's certainly not about technical prowess, just about depth of investigation. It takes time. I had 15 years of painting under my belt before my first New York show. I was glad to have that. It's a good thing to spend your twenties getting your craft.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

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

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

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

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for three years.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

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

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

As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.

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

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

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

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

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

I wanted to be a painter.

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.

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

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

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

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

The painter strives and competes with nature.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

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

Every good painter paints what he is.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.

I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

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

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