#painter

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#attention #behind #consciousness #focus #freedom

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. ↗

— William Allan

#i #latin #learning #money #painter

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#function #his #model #only #painter

I have never been much of a painter. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#i #much #never #painter

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

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cities #dome #hills #him #little

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