#painter

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?' ↗

— Peter Malkin

#eyes #i #many #myself #ny times

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

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. ↗

— John Ruskin

#builder #great #only #painter #person

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#because #been #dramatic #early #experimental

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#dramatic #early #experimental #extension #films

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. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#come #experimental #filmmaking #good #how

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#been #british #come #countryside #decades

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. ↗

— John Hench

#art #artist #communicate #far #fine

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

— Damien Hirst

#artist #being #better #i #idea