Painter Quotes

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

Virginia Woolf
- Running
- Champagne
- Pens
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

Pablo Picasso
- Feelings
- Painter
- Visions

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done…But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.

Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
- Playing
- Lights
- Ufo
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

Mark Bradford
- Important
- Art
- Imperative
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

William Morris Hunt
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

Pablo Picasso
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Rudolf Arnheim
- Art
- Language
- Household
The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

Edouard Vuillard