#painter

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#box #boxing #got #i #into

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. ↗

— Leopold Stokowski

#his #music #musicians #paint #painter

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over. ↗

— Andy Summers

#downstairs #get #go #i #lot

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

#evening #figure #i #landscapes #looking

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#his #just #own #painter #personal

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#films #going #just #like #make

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#arabia #carpenter #first #first thing #i

'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.' Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#painters #painting #art

Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished making love? ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#painter #painting #dreams

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. ↗

— David Coverdale

#art #artist #become #could #design