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Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.

— Roberta Smith

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

— Al Gore

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.

— David Lange

The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.

— Jamie Wyeth

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

— John Updike

Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented.

— Stephen Baldwin

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

— John Hurt

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

— Ben Shahn

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

— Martin Sheen

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

— Wavy Gravy

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

— Jasper Johns