#painter

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

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I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#arts #college #fine #fine arts #home mom

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#architect #authors #being #build #buildings

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again. ↗

— Jane Campion

#again #being #better #did #economic

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. ↗

— Nick Cave

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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#book #brooks #century #early #i

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ↗

— John Ciardi

#better #better idea #happens #idea #looking

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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