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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?