Painter Quotes
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
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Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.
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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.'
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If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.
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By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
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I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
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A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
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Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.
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No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
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I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
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Bernard Leach was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.
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All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.
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La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.
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That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
