#painter

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. ↗

— Alton Brown

#chocolate #find #french #hard #i

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#everybody #films #glad #going #i

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. ↗

— Brian Eno

#ambition #art #beginning #century #considered

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. ↗

— George Woodcock

#i #like #mathematicians #me #move

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#collaborator #i #influences #like #nature

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#architecture #buildings #completely #consistent #later

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#important #language #listen #more #nature

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#life #own #painter #paintings #soul

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#humblest #nature #painter #scholar #scholars

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#canvas #closeness #exists #film #his