#painter

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Michael Pitt

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She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artist #artistic #artists #artists-life #arts

Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished making love? ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#painter #painting #dreams

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. ↗

— Alton Brown

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With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. ↗

— George Clooney

#end #exciting #fun #in the end #more

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. ↗

— David Coverdale

#art #artist #become #could #design

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#another #because #become #been #career

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. ↗

— Brian Eno

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With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#ballet #both #choose #go #his