Painter Quotes
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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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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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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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Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
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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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Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.
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Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.
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Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.
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A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
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The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
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You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
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I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
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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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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.
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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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As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.
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To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.
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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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I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
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I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
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Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
