Quotes of: Painter Keyword

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

Sylvester Stallone

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

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

Lynne Truss

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Edvard Munch

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Lady Gaga

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

Edgar Degas

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Grace Slick

Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!

Julia Roberts

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

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

Ed O'Brien

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

Chris Jordan

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

Hill Harper

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

Hideo Kojima

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

Josh Hartnett

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

H. R. Giger

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Alfred Sisley

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

Horace

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

Philip Guston

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

Annie Parisse

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Anne Stevenson

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

Alice Walker