Painter Quotes

There is no must in art because art is free.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

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

I draw manga, therefore I am!

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

Picasso is a painter,
so am I;
Picasso is Spanish,
so am I;
Picasso is a communist,
neither am I.

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

Poet and sculptor,
do the work,
/ Nor let the modish painter shirk

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish,
(2) to be called Dali

The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

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

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.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?