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“If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.”

“It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.”

People Feels Trying Looks Art Moving Attention Style Duty Musician Painter Pay Attention Novelists

Author:Nathalie Sarraute

“I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.”

Wanted Painter Abstract Rotten

Author:Jenny Holzer

“My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.”

Moments Dream Courses Family Fashion My Family Painter Textiles

Author:Roberto Cavalli

“I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.”

Knows Want Art Know How Painting Painter Heat Decent Fine Arts Famous Artist Fine Artists Painting Art Painting And Art Battlestar Galactica

Author:Javier Bardem

“I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.”

Art Book Would Be Wanted Painting Drawing Painter Doubters Drawing And Painting

Author:Billy Childish

“You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more.”

Knows Needs Writing Actors Grows Can Do Ability Practice Groups Musician Paint Hardest Painter Crafts Hardest Thing Expanding Violin Caliber

Author:Anne Archer

“I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.”

World Ideas Country Artist Strong Roots Admire Painter Very Strong Monument Portugal Chekhov

Author:Antonio Lobo Antunes

“I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.”

Ifs Years Painting Type Painter Limp Bizkit

Author:Fred Durst

“All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.”

Artist Brother Painter Novelists My Brother Designer My Sister Costumes Sibling My Siblings

Author:Caio Fonseca

“I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.”

I Can Whole Remember Memories Childhood Scene Painter

Author:Paula Fox

“I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.”

Way Art Ends Play Fun Careers Childhood Performances Convinced Painter Camps Therapeutic Performance Art Dell

Author:Troy Garity

“It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.”

Wanted Teacher Terrible Safe My Family Painter

Author:Josef Albers

“My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.”

Knows Father Parent Active Theatre Painter Nonsense Builder Carpenter

Author:Josef Albers

“And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation”

Source: The collected essays and prose sketches

“I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.”

Study Economic Taught Lessons Painter Filmmaker

Author:Jane Campion

“I wanted to be a painter.”

Wanted Painter

Author:Max Cannon

“My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.”

Littles Parent Painter Good Writers Little Sister Other Sister

Author:Michael Cera

“It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.”

Knows World Moments Problem Painting Pure Research Ideals Painter Paris Present Moment Ideal World

Author:Robert Delaunay

“I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.”

Night Next Creativity Morning Studios Painter Delirium Delirium Tremens

Book:Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles

Source: Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles

“My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.”

Thinking Rooms My Friends Painter

Author:Howard Hodgkin

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