Painter Quotes
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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
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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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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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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
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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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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 started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
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A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
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Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
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I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
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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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As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.
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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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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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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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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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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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My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much traditional art.
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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
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To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.
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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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If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
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Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
