#painter

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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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

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

— Richard Linklater

#films #going #just #like #make

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

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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

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Proper lighting is everything, Julianna. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#art #lighting #truth #art

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

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I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. ↗

— Wayne Thiebaud

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'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

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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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