William Blake
Poet, Painter
"He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter."
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Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I."
Hugo Chavez
Politician
"I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk"
Denis Diderot
Philosopher, Writer
"You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his."
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"I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer."
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"A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter."
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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."
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"The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him."
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"The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali"
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"The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also."
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"All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands."
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"In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter."
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"Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?"
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"As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely."
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"It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them."
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"You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them."
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"Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see."
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"A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?"
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"A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter."
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"Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter."
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"It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well."
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"One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth."
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"I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop."
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"If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter."
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