Painter Quotes
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My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.
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Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.
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Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
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Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
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The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
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I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.
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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture — that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
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We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people when we were young.
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Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.
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In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
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A painter is somebody who sees. I paint the moment when I set out. When I set out to see. And it’s the same thing for the viewer. When he approaches the canvas, he is advancing towards an encounter. The encounter with vision.
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What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.
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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
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Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.
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I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
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He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.
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The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.
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The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors it sees for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.
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I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
