Painter Quotes

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I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But Iâ€™ve had to realize, that I wouldnâ€™t make it… — Finn Juhl
I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now. — Kirsty Hume
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. — Xander Berkeley
How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do… — Paul Provenza
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes… — Arne Jacobsen
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a… — Walter Gropius
Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? — Mark Twain
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the… — Oscar Wilde
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three… — Anthony Doerr
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. — Brendan Behan
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf
The progression of a painterâ€™s workâ€¦will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea… — Mark Rothko
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all… — Frank Stella
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed,… — Bridget Riley
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on… — Robert Rauschenberg
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea… — Willem de Kooning

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