#painter

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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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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From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it. ↗

— Reynolds Price

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Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. ↗

— Paul Klee

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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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