Quotes with painter

  • 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 days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
  • If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced.
  • Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
  • Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
  • 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 America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
  • 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 utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Caio Fonseca All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • John Ruskin An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Boyd Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
    Arthur Boyd
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • Bridget Riley As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
    Bridget Riley: dialogues on art
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Bill Evans As the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time.
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    Bill Evans
    American jazz pianist and composer (1929 - 1980)
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  • Paul Klee Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bo Burnham Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Billy Collins Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Every good painter invents a new way of painting.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich 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 Reagan.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Anne Stevenson I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Wyndham Lewis If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Sinclair Lewis 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 America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • David Bailey It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
    David Bailey
    English fashion and portrait (1938 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr 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 days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • John Ruskin No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a painter or sculptor, he can only be a builder.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Edgar Degas Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
    Edgar Degas
     
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  • Charles Baudelaire Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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