Painter Quotes
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If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
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Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.
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The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.
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My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.
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It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
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Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
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I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
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If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
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Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking from your heart. That's something that's not easy to do, you set yourself up for all sorts of criticism or vulnerability but that's why we do it.
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
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The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.
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As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then 1958 Coup in Iraq, reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.”
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I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.
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A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
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I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.
