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Letter "P" » painter
«I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.»
«It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.»
«Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things»
«In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
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Writer)
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«I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.»
«I continue to get further away from the usual painter?s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.»
Author: Jackson Pollock
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Painter)
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«Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Detours,
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«If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint? and that voice will be silenced.»
«Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.»
«I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...»