#painter

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#ask #grow #him #himself #life

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#him #his #needs #obsession #painter

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#actor #admire #anonymous #being #explain

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#anecdote #archaeologists #attorneys #creative #engineers

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#busy #career #desperately #eat #forget

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#circumstance #i #myself #painter #thought

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. ↗

— Frank Stella

#imitating #learns #looking #other #painters

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

#artist #i #i am #i can #may

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#actor #artist #great #me #musician

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#i think #kind #know #most #painters