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The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.
I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.
I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.
For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.
In 2005, I worked as a scenic painter for a while when I was taking a break from music.
It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.