Richard Linklater Quotes
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
Wavy Gravy -
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock -
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
Aaron Huey -
I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
Quentin Tarantino -
All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
Vikas Swarup -
I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
M. F. Husain
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If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
Angela Robinson -
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
Odilon Redon -
I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.
Curtis Hanson -
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
Mark Bradford -
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor -
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
Virginia Woolf
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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
Virginia Woolf -
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
Francis Bacon -
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
Pablo Picasso -
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
Pablo Picasso -
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
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I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
Angelina Jolie -
In 1666, an Act designed to promote the wool industry came into force, insisting that everyone should be buried in a woollen shroud. Other fibres, such as silk or linen, were banned.
Catharine Arnold -
On a dull party: It was a fĂȘte worse than death.
Barbara Stanwyck -
'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.
Richard V. Allen -
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
Richard Linklater