#painter

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

— Paul Cezanne

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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

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#actor #artist #great #me #musician

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. ↗

— Jared Leto

#around #artists #celebrated #child #clear

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit. ↗

— Jack Levine

#hit #i #i wish #paint #painter

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#anecdote #archaeologists #attorneys #creative #engineers

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#cares #else #painter #painting #unless

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #creative #difficult #ever #first

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#beautiful #depict #fall #feels #flaws