My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

- Bruce Campbell

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

- David Hockney

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

- Damien Hirst

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

- Damien Hirst

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

- Chris Jordan

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

- Cleo Moore

I have never been much of a painter.

- Christian Marclay

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

- Claude Monet

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

- Ben Whishaw

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 stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

- Alton Brown

I'm a painter in sound.

- Brian Eno

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

- Bill Dedman

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

- Agnes Varda

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

- Arthur Boyd

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

- Aaron Huey

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

- Annie Parisse

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

- Anne Stevenson

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

- Andy Summers

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

- Alfred Stieglitz