Painter Quotes
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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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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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Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
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Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
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Bernard Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.
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As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.
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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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I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
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Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.
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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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If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
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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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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
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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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When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.
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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.
