Painter Quotes

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I am an Indian and a painter, that's all. — M. F. Husain
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. — M. F. Husain
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath. — M. F. Husain
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and… — Marlene Dietrich
A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what… — Carlos Gavito
Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken… — Vincent Van Gogh
I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master… — Kevin Costner
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way… — Aleksa Palladino
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a… — Martin Scorsese
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist… — Marlene Dumas
Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a… — Marlene Dumas
Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso. — Woody Allen
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing… — Edgar Degas
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter… — Pablo Picasso
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.… — Ad Reinhardt
My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter. — Sam Rockwell
In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With… — James Keller
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. — Minoru Yamasaki
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? — Peter Brook
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in… — Sinclair Lewis

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