Top 497 Painters Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.
When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.
Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.
I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. I achieved that a long time ago with TV. I don't need any more.
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.
The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
