#painter

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Michael Pitt

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My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

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They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model") ↗

— Hume Nisbet

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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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Beauty is in the mind, not the eye. ↗

— Agnes Martin

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I wanted to be a painter. ↗

— Max Cannon

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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. ↗