Painter Quotes

There is no must in art because art is free.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

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 draw manga, therefore I am!

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.

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

A painter is a choreographer of space.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

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

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

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

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

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

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

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

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

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier