Richard Linklater Quotes
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
Richard Linklater
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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
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I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.
Curtis Hanson
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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
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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
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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
Francis Bacon
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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
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A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
Pablo Picasso
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The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
Pablo Picasso
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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 know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.
Joe Perry
Aerosmith
