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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.
I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.
My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.
Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.
My mom's a painter, and she used to wear black all the time, and so do I. So I would say a black T-shirt with a pocket is my go-to.
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?
I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays like them - I wanted to be a painter.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.
My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband is a sculptor.
After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.