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“The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad
originals.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 136)
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“The picture that approaches sculpture nearest
Is the best picture.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Michael Angelo (pt. II, 4)
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“Vain is the hope by colouring to display
The bright effulgence of the noontide ray
Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies
With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes.”
William Mason Quotes Source: Fresnoy's Art of Painting
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“I mix them with my brains, sir.”
John Opie ("The Cornish Wonder") Quotes Source: answer when asked with what he mixed his colours
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“He best can paint them who shall feel them most.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Eloisa to Abelard (last line)
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“Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 149)
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“The fellow mixes blood with his colors.”
Guido Reni (Guido Reni of Rubens) Quotes Source: said of Rubens
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“Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar
ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable
as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.”
John Ruskin Quotes Source: True and Beautiful--Painting (introduction)
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“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a
landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves
you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and
human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter,
it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that
move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours,
and the fullness thereof.”
John Ruskin Quotes Source: The Two Paths (lect. I)
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“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”
John Singer Sargent Quotes Source: in Bentley and Esar's "Treasury of Humorous Quotations" (1951)
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