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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
Child
Soldier
General
Monk
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
Pablo Picasso
Spot
Sun
Art
Transform
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Pablo Picasso
Blind
Feel
Man
Painter
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan Sontag
Constructs
Painter
Photographer
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
Able
Become
Being
Flowers
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
Leonardo da Vinci
Any
Being
Conscious
Copies
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The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Always
Colour
Front
Images
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci
Below
Far
Invisible
Musician
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Vincent van Gogh
Derives
Life
Own
Painter
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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
Feeling
Important
Language
Listen
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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.
Vincent Price
Events
Way
Sometimes
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
Octavio Paz
Great
His
Language
Limits
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The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.
Wale
Feel
Ability
Singer
Art
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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
Able
Actor
Artist
Great
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
Kami Garcia
Art
Arts
College
Fine
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas
Only
Longer
Knows
Painter
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
Nick Cave
Always
Art
Beautiful
Compliment
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A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.
Edward de Bono
Painter
World
Craftsman
People
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
J.J. Abrams
Been
Destruction
Examining
Fears
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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
Patti Smith
Calling
Fact
InFact
Painter
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To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.
J. M. W. Turner
Beautiful
Art
Select
Painter Art Is Admirable
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Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
Paul Klee
Always
Am
Color
Happy
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Paul Klee
He
Paint
Painter
Seen
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G. H. Hardy
Mathematician
Painter
Poet
Permanent
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
Rainn Wilson
Also
Always
Artist
Bunch
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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
More difficult
Truly creative
Painter
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
Henri Matisse
Astonishing
Understanding
Art
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Jackson Pollock
Every
Good
He
Painter
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Jackson Pollock
Away
Brushes
Continue
Etc
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
Jackson Pollock
Different
Go
Matter
Modern
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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
Age
Airplane
Any
Artists
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The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.
Mark Rothko
Progression
Painter's work
Toward clarity
Elimination
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I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret comes the best from artists, painters and writers.
Sylvester Stallone
I
Regrets
Reasons
Create things
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
Writer
Eyes
Paint
Ears
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Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
John Dewey
Art
Writers
Painters
Expression
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
Michelangelo
Poets
Painters
Power
Dare
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