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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

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

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter?

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

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