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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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| If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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Honore De Balzac(1799-1850, French novelist) |
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| Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
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Miguel De Cervantes(1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet) |
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| A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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Leonardo Da Vinci(1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor) |
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| I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Salvador Dali(1904-1989, Spanish painter) |
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| Sunlight is painting.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864, American novelist, short story writer) |
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| Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
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Joseph Joubert(1754-1824, French moralist) |
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| I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
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Henri De Toulouse Lautrec |
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| The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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Thomas B. Macaulay(1800-1859, American essayist and historian) |
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| What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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Blaise Pascal(1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher) |
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| I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
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Pablo Picasso(1881-1973, Spanish artist) |
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| Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Pablo Picasso(1881-1973, Spanish artist) |
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| I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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Pierre Auguste Renoir(1841-1919, French impressionist artist) |
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| Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
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Georges Rouault |
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| In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
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John Ruskin(1819-1900, British critic, social theorist) |
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| Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
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John Singer Sargent(1856-1925, American artist) |
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| Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.
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Simonides |
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| Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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| I dream of painting, and then I paint my dream.
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Vincent Van Gogh(1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter) |
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| Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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Vincent Van Gogh(1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter) |
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| Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Oscar Wilde(1856-1900, British author, wit) |
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