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• The highest, the most logical, the purest and strongest form of painting is the mural… It is, too, the most disinterested form, for it cannot be made a matter of private gain; it cannot be hidden away for the benefit of a certain privileged few. It is for the people. It is for ALL.

  José Clemente Orozco

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• The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

  Joyce Maynard

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• I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I’m not a painter.

  Annie Parisse

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

  Jenny Holzer

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• I think I’ve always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

  Damien Hirst

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• Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don’t think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

  Damien Hirst

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• When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

  Emanuel Steward

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• I’d come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making ‘Good Will Hunting’ was experimental because I didn’t know how to do it.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• Free time keeps me going. It’s just something that’s always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• If you cut a painter’s hands off, he’d still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

  Jil Sander

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• I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

  M. F. Husain

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• Many times I asked myself, ‘Who is a painter in your own eyes?’

  Peter Malkin

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• If you’re a painter, you’re not alone. There’s no way to be alone.

  Franz Kline

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• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

  Paul Klee

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• There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

  Paul Cézanne

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• With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

  Paul Cézanne

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• The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

  Susan Sontag

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• If I were a painter, you’d be calling me Shaqcasso.

  Shaquille O'Neal

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• I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

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• I’m just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what’s going on, and I paint it. While I’m painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

  William T. Wiley

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