Painter Quotes
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
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.
John Williams
If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.
Ranveer Brar
If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
Angela Robinson
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
Man Ray
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
Aaron Huey
By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
Claude Monet
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.
Jack White
The White Stripes
I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.
Jesse L. Martin
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
Michelangelo
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
Socrates
