#painter

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#ears #eyes #his #paint #painter

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. ↗

— Frank Stella

#against #become #best #gestures #had

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

#cute #daughter #family #gives #good

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#front #him #himself #inside #only

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#his #ideas #like #made #maker

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. ↗

— John Hench

#art #artist #communicate #far #fine

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#artist #being #better #i #idea

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? ↗

— David Hockney

#diploma #going #i #i see #painter

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#into #others #painters #some #spot

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. ↗

— Xander Berkeley

#because #direct #done #films #i