Painter Quotes - page 18

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock. (Arne Glimcher)
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. View quote
Babatunde Adebimpe
The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'. View quote
Balthus
When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know? View quote
Billy Magnussen
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major. View quote
Brett Dalton
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. View quote
Bruce Campbell
I have never been much of a painter. View quote
Christian Marclay
I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot. View quote
Cleo Moore
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. View quote
David Bailey
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. View quote
David Coverdale
I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation, but it's also a solitary, lonely occupation. What I like about acting is that it is such a collaborative thing. (Dichen Lachman)
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people. View quote
Dylan Lauren
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot. View quote
Ed McBain
I'm a very strange painter. I don't wake up one day and say, 'God, isn't this a fantastic day, I'd better get out and paint!' I think my father's more that way, because he's very fast. View quote
Jamie Wyeth
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again. View quote
Jane Campion
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation. View quote
Jean-Jacques Annaud
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. View quote
Jenny Holzer
If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter. View quote
Joe Mantello
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. View quote
John Hench
When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter. View quote
Jonathan Pryce
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. (Kenneth Koch)
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. View quote
M. F. Husain
I am an Indian and a painter, that's all. View quote
M. F. Husain
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way. View quote
Chris Jordan
The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays. View quote
Franco Moschino