Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

- Nigel Barker

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

- Tina Weymouth

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

- Robert Rauschenberg

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

- Richard Linklater

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

- Roy Lichtenstein

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

- Peter Lindbergh

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

- P. J. Harvey

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

- Paul Cezanne

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

- Pablo Picasso

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

- Bob Ross

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

- Mark Rothko

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

- Lorenz Hart

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

- Joel Sternfeld

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

- Howard Hodgkin

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

- George Woodcock

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

- Frank Stella

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

- Berthe Morisot