Painter Quotes - page 4

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. (Aaron Huey)

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

Andy Summers

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Anne Stevenson

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

Annie Parisse

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Arne Jacobsen

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

Arthur Boyd

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

Agnes Varda

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

Caio Fonseca

You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

Ellen Barkin

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

Eva Zeisel

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. (Lynda Barry)

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

M. F. Husain

I wanted to be a painter.

Max Cannon

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

Michael Cera

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Norman McLaren

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

Robert Morgan

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

Rod Taylor

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

Steve Guttenberg

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

Sylvia Kristel

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

Vincente Minnelli

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater. (Vincente Minnelli)

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

William Wiley

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

Wayne Thiebaud

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

Xander Berkeley

When I once called myself a "Sunday painter” dabbling in stochastic finance, that was not meant to belittle finance theory as a branch of serious economic theory. Such a peculiar view was expressed again and again by the late Milton Friedman, a dizzy view that I still find incomprehensible.

Paul Samuelson

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