#painter

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#busy #career #desperately #eat #forget

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#circumstance #i #myself #painter #thought

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#backbone #better #draw #drawing #i

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#coup #final #finish #give #grace

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#face #human #human face #mirror #painter

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#comment #make #painter #painting #sculpture

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

— Jackson Pollock

#brushes #continue #etc #further #get

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

#artist #copies #i #interested #making

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

#going #here #i #just #mean

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#attention #behind #consciousness #focus #freedom