#painter

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. ↗

— Leopold Stokowski

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Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

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Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

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My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

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The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. ↗

— Wayne Thiebaud

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Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent, knobby collarbone. He looked…complicated and hungry. She’d captured him focused intensely on a book, his face pressed against a wall like he was resting. Or waiting. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

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

— George Clooney

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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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