#painter

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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.


Jackson Pollock


#airplane #any #artists #atom #atom bomb

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.


Man Ray


#least #me #member #most #our

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.


Jessica Alba


#blood #capacity #everyone #family #musicians

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.


Josef Albers


#decorative #everything #fact #father #glass

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.


Ad Reinhardt


#artist #connected #dozen #even #every

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.


Bridget Riley


#certainty #come #deceive #does #essential

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.


Benjamin West


#made #me #mother #painter

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.


Andy Serkis


#growing #growing up #i #kid #me

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.


John Dyer


#become #deal #decided #exhibited #first

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.


Jodie Foster


#came #having #history #hurt #knowing