#painter

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes. ↗

— Lucas Grabeel

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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. ↗

— David Hockney

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I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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