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• 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.

  Aleksa Palladino

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• The Taliban’s acts of cultural vandalism – the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas – had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.

  Khaled Hosseini

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• All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

  David Hockney

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• The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness – all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

  Michael Heizer

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• I’m probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  P. J. Harvey

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• I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

  Sylvester Stallone

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• One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

  Frank Stella

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• For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

  Paul Cézanne

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• I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

  George Woodcock

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• I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

  Edward Hopper

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• Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

  John Ciardi

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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  Pablo Picasso

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• 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.

  Jackson Pollock

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• There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can’t stand Picasso, those who can’t stand Raphael and those who’ve never heard of either of them.

  John White

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• To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

  James McNeill Whistler

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