Painter Quotes
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My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
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Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollack
Subject: Art Quotes :: Artist QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore
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Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
Subject: Art QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Time extracts various values from a painter`s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
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I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
Henri Matisse
Subject: Painting Quotes :: Sculpture QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things
Edgar Degas
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
Subject: Art QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci
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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
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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same ...
Pablo Picasso
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor
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You know, Gauguin is one of my favorite painters, not because I think he was a great painter but because he was a great artist, his passion and belief in what he was doing; he gave up everything to follow his passion. I have so much respect for that becau...
Kiefer Sutherland
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Who has gone through their lives without those ups and downs, whether they are a journalist or an actor or a painter or an accountant? There are always going to be times when it doesn`t flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I`m going to fail. And ...
Joseph Fiennes
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There are all sorts of reasons why I don`t do much work in the theater, the main one being that after two performances I feel I`ve given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It`s like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
Peter Cushing
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It`s not by going into `the business,`. The business can`t be a thought. You get a foothold because you want to get a foothold as an artist. Your desire, your intensity, has to be about being a great actor or a great painter or a great musician. If that`s...
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Wasn`t it Whistler who said that a great painter was one who could hide the effort which he put into his work? The same thing goes for gags. It often takes hours to think up something that is said in seconds.
Ed Wynn
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(On how he got started in the business) "I started in theatre, my first job was designing sets. I didn`t know what I was doing, but I had a talent for making dramatic sets; I had been a painter for years. The first play I did, I got the job because I had ...
Lance Henriksen
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I had no natural gift to be anything--not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches--not anything. So I`ve worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.
Paul Newman
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When I`m traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I`m in my (painter`s) studio and when I`m writing. With actors, it`s the same thing. They`re kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, the...
Gloria Vanderbilt
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I grew up in a respectable, lower-middle-class home. Our family was quite educated; my mother was a painter, and stuff like that. And I didn`t chop up my next-door neighbour. But I remember those emotions. It was a very strange world. Ireland is very grey...
Neil Jordan
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[On painter Jackson Pollock]: "One thing I learned about Mr. Pollock`s art, which any art student knows I`m sure, but was indeed a revelation to me, is that Jackson fully believed and lived by `don`t use the accident, because I deny the accident`. One can...
Ed Harris
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You`re not in control of anything. You`re not even like a painter, who can say "I`m just going to go into my studio and do my work, and if nobody wants to buy it, well, maybe they will when I`m dead". You can`t even do that. You`re waiting for somebody to...
Helen Hunt
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Directing is really exciting. In the end, it`s more fun to be the painter than the paint.
George Clooney
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You`ve got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
Ellen Barkin
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With a painter`s temperament, all that`s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Amy Beaner
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Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Source: thinkexist.com
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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
Alfredo Parrish
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
Amy Beaner
