Painter Quotes
891 quotes by 561 authors
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For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.
— Hill Harper
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When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged…
— Bat for Lashes
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I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.
— Paul Simonon
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When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I…
— Robert Wilson
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
— Kami Garcia
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My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek…
— Jacob Rothschild
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If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter;…
— Frederic Chopin
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My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot…
— Alan Arkin
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Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.
— Bill Dedman
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I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts.…
— Jordan Bridges
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I…
— J. G. Ballard
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
— J. G. Ballard
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I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I…
— Colleen Atwood
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The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make…
— Franco Moschino
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If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a…
— Robert Pinsky
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I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a…
— Trevor Rabin
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When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.
— James Gray
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One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.
— Hideo Kojima
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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful…
— Kenneth Koch
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they…
— G. H. Hardy
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