Painter Quotes

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.

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.

Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.

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

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.

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

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

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

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

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

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.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

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

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.

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.

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.

Every good painter paints what he is.

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

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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