#painter

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

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I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing. ↗

— Martin Mull

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I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

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I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. ↗

— Franka Potente

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Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. ↗

— William Allan

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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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