Painter Quotes - Page 5

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

I wanted to be a painter.

I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

The painter strives and competes with nature.