Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
Edvard Munch

Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
John French Sloan

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.
Vladimir Kramnik

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
William Allan

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
Reynolds Price

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
Agnes Varda

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
Marc Chagall

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
Chuck Close

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
Philip Guston

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Alfred Stieglitz

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Jackson Pollock

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
John Dyer

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.
Rube Goldberg

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
Jasper Johns

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
Norman McLaren

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.
John Hench

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.
Lucas Grabeel

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.
Franka Potente