#painter

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

— Wayne Thiebaud

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She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

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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. ↗

— James Whistler

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I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there. ↗

— William Wiley

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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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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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