Painter Quotes

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

Every good painter paints what he is.

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.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

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

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

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.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

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

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.