#painter

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#chose #course #direction #dream #family

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#i #inch #killed #like #ought

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. ↗

— Chuck Close

#around #especially #experience #having #her

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

#artist #i #i am #i can #may

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#being there #entirely #everything #his #must

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#ask #grow #him #himself #life

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#him #his #needs #obsession #painter

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#become #begin #boy #child #childhood

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#i think #like #painter #poet #should

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#attention #duty #feel #look #make