Ivan Morley can loosely be described as a painter, although he uses a wide variety of media and surfaces.

Yoshide is described as a great painter, but also as a very unpleasant man to look at or be around.

She describes herself as a single mother, a painter, an interior designer, a book illustrator and a party-giver.

On the birth registration of his daughter he described himself as a "painter of history".

Mike Rose described himself as a "painter and poet".

Cassou describes him as a "cordial and deeply human painter".

Fernando Arrabal has often described himself as a "frustrated painter."

Worth describes himself as a conservative, academic painter, but (unlike poor Turnbull) he has no nostalgia for the past.

She describes herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance."

She has described herself as "A painter who has left the canvas to activate actual space and lived time."