#painter

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#great #life #painter #surrealism #then

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#become #flowers #having #i #owe

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#i #learning #lot #painter #very

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#brain #day #forward #history #hope

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do. ↗

— Richard Price

#arts #because #choice #does #feel

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #mother #nabokov #paint #painter

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

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#art #avoided #change #expectations #fresh

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#had #known #made #painter #pollock