Quotes of: Painter Keyword

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

George Woodcock

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

Howard Hodgkin

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

Jackson Pollock

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

John Updike

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

Damien Hirst

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

David Hockney

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

Jack Levine

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

Nobody: You were a poet and a painter, William Blake. But now, you're a killer of white men.

Dead Man

Franz Liebkind: Hitler... there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!

The Producers

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Peter Doig

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

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. ...

J. G. Ballard

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

Quentin Blake

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

J. J. Abrams

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

David Lynch

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

Gustav Klimt

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

Kevin Costner

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

Alton Brown

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

Andy Serkis

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

Yayoi Kusama