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

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

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

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

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

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.

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

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

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

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

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

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

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

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

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

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

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

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

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

In 2005, I worked as a scenic painter for a while when I was taking a break from music.

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

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

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

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

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

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

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

Share This Page