I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.
Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.
To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship. . . a dictatorship of painters. . . a dictatorship of one painter. . . to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.
Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.
Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.