I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable. . . But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.
Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English!
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols). . . The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies.
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.
One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. If we were born to paint, it’s our job to become a painter. If we were born to raise and nurture children, it’s our job to become a mother. If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.
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.
I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.
To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.
For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.
We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.