“ There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ”
- Henri Matisse- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
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“ Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. ”
- Joseph Joubert- Copy
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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. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
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“ I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. ”
- Pierre Auguste Renoir- Copy
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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. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. ”
- Simonides- Copy
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“ The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ My mother said to me, ''If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.'' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. — Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time… ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington. ”
- Mr. Shellhammer- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame. ”
- Gertrude Stein- Copy
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“ I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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