#painters

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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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. ↗

— Jared Leto

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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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But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

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I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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