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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things
Edgar Degas
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream
Vincent van Gogh
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen
Leonardo da Vinci
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso
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I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.
Stephen Wright
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From the mingled strength of shade and light
A new creation rises to my sight,
Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow,
So warm with light his blended colors glow.
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The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring
Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan (st. 3)
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If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio
and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing
Auctioneer.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Frederick the Great (bk. IV, ch. III)
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A picture is a poem without words.
Confucius
Quotes , Source: Anet. ad Her. (4, 28)
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Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I
will not pay you a shilling.
Oliver Cromwell
Quotes , Source: Remark to the Painter, Lely
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Hard features every bungler can command:
To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: To Mr. Lee, on his Alexander (l. 53)
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"Paint me as I am," said Cromwell,
"Rough with age and gashed with wars;
Show my visage as you find it,
Less than truth my soul abhors."
James Thomas Fields
Quotes , Source: On a Portrait of Cromwell
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A flattering painter, who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: Retaliation (l. 63)
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One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the
applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the
colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely
away.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quotes , Source: Marble Faun (bk. II, ch. XII)
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Well, something must be done for May,
The time is drawing nigh--
To figure in the Catalogue,
And woo the public eye.
Something I must invent and paint;
But oh my wit is not
Like one of those kind substantives
That answer Who and What?
Thomas Hood
Quotes , Source: The Painter Puzzled
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own
genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his
own.
Mrs. Anna Jameson
Quotes , Source: Memoirs and Essays--Washington Allston
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