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I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with. ↗

— Martin Mull

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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out. ↗

— Robert Plant

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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?' ↗

— Peter Malkin

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Writing and Painting are the same for me. ↗

— Peter Malkin

#painting #same #writing

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#money #paint #people #photography #portraits

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. ↗

— Michael Ironside

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