Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.
I have never been much of a painter.
I've heard that many fine artists have to turn their 'finished' paintings to face the wall - otherwise, every time they walk past, they are tempted to pick up a brush and make small adjustments here and there.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
I was too practical to want to be a painter.