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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. ↗

— Frank Stella

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The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

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I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. ↗

— John Hench

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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? ↗

— David Hockney

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I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. ↗

— Xander Berkeley

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I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. ↗