#painter

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

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

— G. H. Hardy

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

— William Hazlitt

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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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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. ↗

— Horace

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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 wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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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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