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.
I wanted to be a painter.
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.
I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.
If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.
Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style. . .
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always resented that actually. . we were all getting the same amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales.
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.
A record. . . is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter. . . I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.
The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.