#painter

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#drooping #ends #had #i #known

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush. ↗

— Jil Sander

#cut #feel #hands #off #painter

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

— Patti Smith

#fact #i #in fact #painter #thought

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

#condemned #eager #energy #every #good

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings. ↗

— Balthus

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An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? ↗

— Peter Brook

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