So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
Minoru Yamasaki

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
Paul Signac

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
Balthus

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
Franz Kline

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
William Hazlitt

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
Lucian Freud

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan Sontag

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.
Anthony Quinn

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Paul Cezanne

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
Lucian Freud

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Paul Klee

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
Caspar David Friedrich

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
Joyce Maynard

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
Annie Dillard

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
Lucian Freud

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
Lucian Freud

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Horace

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
Frank Auerbach