Painter Quotes - Page 4

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

I'm a sign painter with no boss.

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.