All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.
The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.
I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.
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!
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.
The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.