Painter Quotes

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Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men. — Laurie Halse Anderson
If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are… — Hayao Miyazaki
A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetishâ€¦ Look, listen and transcribe and… — William S. Burroughs
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the… — Rumi
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting,… — Joni Mitchell
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine... — Jennifer Donnelly
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact itâ€™s essential to slow down and read every… — Francine Prose
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for. — Josephine Baker
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter. — Vincent Van Gogh
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior… — Terry McMillan
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. — Leonardo da Vinci
The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the… — Ann Voskamp
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed… — Henry Miller
Whatâ€™s with her?â€ says the painter. â€œSheâ€™s mad because sheâ€™s a woman,â€ Jon says. This is something I havenâ€™t heard for years, not since high… — Margaret Atwood
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only… — H P Lovecraft
The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants,… — Grant Morrison
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap peopleâ€™s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking… — Arundhati Roy
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything. — Jean-Luc Godard
When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your… — Rajneesh
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are… — Michael Crichton

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