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Painter Quotes - Page 2

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

Brice Marden (1978). “Brice Marden: Recent Paintings and Drawings : [catalogue of an Exhibition], September 23-21 October 1978, The Pace Gallery, New York”

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

Sandra Brant, Andy Warhol, Elissa Cullman (1977). “Andy Warhol's "Folk and Funk": September 20, 1977-November 19, 1977”

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

1914 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, entry 926.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

H. R. Graetz, Vincent van Gogh (1963). “The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh”, London, Hudson