Painter Quotes - page 19

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish. (Fred Gwynne)
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals. View quote
Jacob Rothschild
I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything. View quote
Neil Burger
I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world. View quote
Olivier Megaton
I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting. View quote
Peter Doig
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made. View quote
Paul Engle
Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter. View quote
Roberta Smith
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it. View quote
Reynolds Price
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. View quote
Steven Saylor
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary. View quote
Sylvia Kristel
So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room. (Tony Kaye)
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter. View quote
Troy Garity
The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. View quote
Wale
I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney. View quote
Wavy Gravy
Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well. View quote
Sigmar Polke
At no time did anyone throw his cap in the air and rejoice that another painter, capable of equalling Hals at his best, had been discovered. View quote
Germaine Greer
A fresh river in a beautiful meadow Imagined in his mind The good Painter, who would some day paint it. View quote
Jeff VanderMeer
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related. View quote
Marjane Satrapi
If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist! View quote
Frédéric Chopin
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us. (Henry David Thoreau)
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour, rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted. View quote
John Williams
The desire of a poet for his writings to be in print is as natural as a painter needs to exhibit his work in public. View quote
Vernon Scannell
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. View quote
J. G. Ballard
The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man. View quote
Moby