Painters Quotes

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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.… — Lorenz Hart
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. — Barbara Kruger
I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always resented that actually.. we were all getting the… — Cindy Sherman
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And… — Jared Leto
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side!… — Howard Zinn
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? — Eva Marie Saint
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make… — Christopher Meloni
I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20… — Martin Scorsese
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
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
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
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf
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
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt… — Michelangelo
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — PJ Harvey
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. — Gerald Brenan

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