#painter

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter. ↗

— Patti Smith

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Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. ↗

— John French Sloan

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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

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

— William Hazlitt

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My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

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I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. ↗

— Josef Albers

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I will be a historical painter. ↗

— William Allan

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