#painter

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

— William Hazlitt

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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. ↗

— David Hockney

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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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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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The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

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I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. ↗

— Chuck Close

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