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. That is what we do.
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
Life is a wave of love for a lover, a gift for a giver, a drama for an actor, and a canvas for a painter.
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.
I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.
Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.
