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Coach Painter's been utilizing a lot of new drills that I like, some that I don't like, but I still gotta do them, they make you better.

Marcus White

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

Larry Rivers

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

John Ciardi

We have 30 to 40 painters, and the paperwork was just crazy.

Tim Gray

They were very experimental painters for their time.

William Andrus

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style.

Henri Rousseau

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Nick Cave

Right Under the Sun. He is one of Canada's most important painters from Montreal, and one of the most representative of the Canadian genius of the '20s and '30s.

Guy Cogeval

It didn't come from nowhere. What nurtured 'Howl' into being was the community of painters, musicians and poets who were very active before it was written.

Steve Silberman

I keep painting on newspapers, maps, and books spending days in bookstores to look for old paintings and young painters.

Peter Malkin

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

Frank Stella

Miners could afford to own one of these. They were little; they were made by village painters, and their frames are simple. Many were painted by someone who was obviously self-taught.

Martha J. Egan

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

Eva Marie Saint

I was painting a lot after the war, influenced by automatic gestures and Pollock. But I knew there were better painters out there.

Ettore Sottsass

This group of painters had, from the 1870s on, gone to Europe. They brought impressionist styles back to New England.

Elizabeth Johns