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Both my parents were painters.
Fashion photographers are the new painters.
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
My family is filled with amazingly talented painters, musicians, vocalists.
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. I achieved that a long time ago with TV. I don't need any more.
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can.
Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.
I decided one day to put on my tutu and jump on the coffee table and sing Aretha Franklin songs for the painters that were painting the house.
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.
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.
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.