#painter

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#build #complete #could #everything #further

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#am #become #being #flowers #following

A kiss from my mother made me a painter. ↗

— Benjamin West

#made #me #mother #painter

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#blood #capacity #everyone #family #musicians

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. ↗

— Josef Albers

#decorative #everything #fact #father #glass

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#chose #creation #does #french #him

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#always #back #behind #cartoonist #cartoons

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#admire #artists #been #blonde #blonde hair

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#asks #because #better #catholicity #celebrated

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#did #get #how #i #life