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  • I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. -- Claude Monet
  • The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess. -- Ernst Gombrich
  • Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? -- Pablo Picasso
  • The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. -- Washington Allston
  • The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog. -- Sara Genn
  • Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. -- Edgar Degas
  • I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. -- Claude Monet
  • Pure souls, didn't I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter. -- Rumi
  • Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell. -- Dorothy Parker
  • On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter. -- Rumi
  • There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. -- Henri Matisse
  • Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. -- Pablo Picasso
  • New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. -- Jackson Pollock
  • Every good painter paints what he is. -- Jackson Pollock
  • Color and I are one. I am a painter. -- Paul Klee
  • The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. -- Paul Klee
  • A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. -- Leopold Stokowski
  • I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer. -- Andy Warhol
  • A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. -- Henri Matisse
  • A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. -- Joyce Maynard
  • A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. -- Henry Moore
  • It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. -- Mark Rothko
  • There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun -- Pablo Picasso
  • It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. -- Billy Joel
  • I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition. -- Jamaica Kincaid
  • At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. -- Harold Rosenberg
  • I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it. -- Michael Jackson
  • Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. -- Gertrude Stein
  • I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. -- Jackson Pollock
  • Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. -- Edvard Munch
  • I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. -- Ron White
  • The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Wale
  • I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. -- Chuck Close
  • 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
  • Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting. -- Bo Burnham
  • 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. -- David Bailey
  • To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. -- Pablo Picasso
  • A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. -- Wassily Kandinsky
  • To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. -- Frank Auerbach
  • What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. -- Pablo Picasso
  • Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself. -- Ray Comfort
  • I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become. -- Al Pacino
  • you draw(the painter) -- Sarah Dunant
  • I am not a juicy painter. -- Andrew Wyeth
  • I wanted to be a painter. -- Max Cannon
  • The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. -- Susan Sontag
  • The painter strives and competes with nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • I'm a sign painter with no boss. -- Wayne White
  • Every good painter paints what he is -- Jackson Pollack
  • A painter is a choreographer of space. -- Barnett Newman
  • The painterĂ¢??s instrument is his armchair. -- Edouard Vuillard
  • Imagine a painter crucified by his subject! -- John Ashbery
  • The modern painter"¦is an excellent couturier -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
  • Selection is the invention of the landscape painter. -- Henry Fuseli
  • Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore? -- Randall Jarrell
  • I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney. -- Wavy Gravy
  • The successful painter is continually painting still life. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • I'm a painter first, and a musician second. -- Joni Mitchell
  • I think of me being a painter eventually. -- Syd Barrett
  • I'm a painter in my dreams, you know. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • I have never been much of a painter. -- Christian Marclay
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  • Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist. -- Agnes Varda
  • I am an Indian and a painter, that's all. -- M. F. Husain
  • The painter unfolds that which has not been seen. -- Paul Cezanne
  • A kiss from my mother made me a painter. -- Benjamin West
  • That painter who has no doubts will achieve little. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. -- Robert Motherwell
  • Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector. -- Bill Dedman
  • I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter. -- Paula Scher
  • You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings. -- L. S. Lowry
  • A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. -- Pablo Picasso
  • I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. -- M. F. Husain
  • The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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  • I think I'm a much better painter than an actor. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • The eye is the painter and the ear the singer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang. -- Hugo Chavez
  • I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere. -- Black Francis
  • A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red. -- Titian
  • A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share. -- Augustus John
  • An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. -- Anne Stevenson
  • To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual. -- Wolf Kahn
  • I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter -- Todd Hido
  • I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas. -- Kenny Florian
  • The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work. -- Frank Stella
  • In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter. -- Patti Smith
  • I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot. -- Cleo Moore
  • When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter. -- James Gray
  • A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. -- Josef Albers
  • Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. -- Martin Mull
  • Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature? -- Benjamin West
  • Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk -- William Butler Yeats
  • In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. -- Pablo Picasso
  • I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. -- Joni Mitchell
  • Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. -- Pablo Picasso
  • The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking. -- Wanda Koop
  • I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath. -- M. F. Husain
  • Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. -- Emil Nolde
  • The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination. -- Robert Breault
  • The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth. -- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
  • The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. -- G. H. Hardy
  • I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. -- Aaron Huey
  • An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that. -- Sam Rockwell
  • I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost. -- Chali 2na
  • Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life. -- Saint John Chrysostom
  • A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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