#painter

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism. ↗

— Will Sergeant

#am #century #chord #colour #early

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

They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model") ↗

— Hume Nisbet

#artist #literature #painter #painting #age

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#expressionism #max-beckman #painter #art

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student. ↗

— Paul Graham

#hackers #humor #inspirational #painters #paul

Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent, knobby collarbone. He looked…complicated and hungry. She’d captured him focused intensely on a book, his face pressed against a wall like he was resting. Or waiting. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#artist #breakups #college #creativity #dating

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

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. ↗

— George Clooney

#end #exciting #fun #in the end #more

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#ballet #both #choose #go #his

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#anything #artist #conceptual #david #instruments