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Painter Quotes
Many times I asked myself, Who is a painter in your own eyes? - Peter Malkin Quotes
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. - Paul Klee Quotes
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. - James Whistler Quotes
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. - Caspar David Friedrich Quotes
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. - Norman Mclaren Quotes
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater. - Vincente Minnelli Quotes
One thing, I was a painter until maybe 61 or 62 - Ill have to figure out the dates - and then I started doing three-dimensional things. - Donald Judd Quotes
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. Im a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits. - Gustav Klimt Quotes
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. Youre a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. Youre a writer because this is what you do. - Richard Price Quotes
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play. - Bridget Riley Quotes
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. - Pablo Picasso Quotes
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. - Susan Sontag Quotes
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. - Wyndham Lewis Quotes
A days work is a days work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a days sustenance, a nights repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. - George Bernard Shaw Quotes
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. - Arne Jacobsen Quotes
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. - Lucian Freud Quotes
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. - William Hazlitt Quotes
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. - Lucian Freud Quotes
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. - Joyce Maynard Quotes
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. - Godfrey Harold Hardy Quotes
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesnt hurt your appreciation of the painting. - Jodie Foster Quotes
A painter paints the appearance of things,not their objective correctness,in fact he creates new appearances of things. - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Quotes
As a painter youre responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary. - Sylvia Kristel Quotes
I am a writer and a poet, a director and a painter and an immigrant to the United States and to Canada where my family migrated to after WW2. - Nick Mancuso Quotes
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. - Josef Albers Quotes
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. - Pablo Picasso Quotes
I never consciously said, I want to be an actor. It sounds stupid, but its kind of like being a painter or something. You dont say, From today on Im going to be a painter. Its not something conscious - youve just been painting pictures all your life. - Franka Potente Quotes
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. - Pablo Picasso Quotes
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. - Lucian Freud Quotes
Art doesnt alter things. It points things out, but it doesnt alter them. It cant, no matter what a painter wants to do. - Arthur Boyd Quotes
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