Painter Quotes - Page 3

Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I am not a juicy painter.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.