#painter

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

#been #being #conscious #consciously #going

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#i can #just #make #movies #paint

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

#attention #conversation #critic #even #i

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#function #his #model #only #painter

I have never been much of a painter. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#i #much #never #painter

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

#became #become #general #i #instead

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

— Pablo Picasso

#eyes #order #ought #out #painters

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

#go #matter #modern #most #outside

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone. ↗

— Franz Kline

#painter #way #you