Quotes About Painter

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

All portraits reveal both the the painter and the person painted. In many ways all paintings are self-portraits. All part of why art informs.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be assured, will not be too well pleased if his countenance and figure do not receive proper attention.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because he chooses to, not because he can't draw.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Auroras de diciembre espléndidas y risueñas, que convidan al vivir; ellas, sin duda, inspiran al pintor y al poeta de la patria peruana.

Quelqu'un a-t-il fait attention au brouillard de ce matin ? dit l'employé. — C'était, dit Bianchon, un brouillard frénétique et sans exemple, un brouillard lugubre, mélancolique, vert, poussif, un brouillard Goriot. — Goriorama, dit le peintre, parce qu'on n'y voyait goutte. — Hé ! milord Gâôriotte, il être questiônne de véaus.

It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.