Painter Quotes - Page 6

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

It's a completely different way of working when you have your own place for recording. It's like if you were a painter, and you do loads of painting, and you just pick which paintings you want to exhibit. It's a much nicer, freer way of making work; you're not limited to anything, and you can make these cool, weird little albums.

I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out.

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having to demonstrate it.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with someone. The painter is telling us something. Just, how do they - what's their syntax? What's their inflection?

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.