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And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: The Campaign (last line)
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As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio.
Author: Augustine Birrell
Source: Obiter Dicta--Emerson
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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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Frederick the Great (bk. IV, ch. III)
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A picture is a poem without words.
Author: Confucius
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.
Author: Oliver Cromwell
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.
Author: John Dryden
Source: To Mr. Lee, on his Alexander (l. 53)
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--Of Art
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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."
Author: James Thomas Fields
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.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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?
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: The Painter Puzzled
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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (XXX)
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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.
Author: Mrs. Anna Jameson
Source: Memoirs and Essays--Washington Allston
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I only feel, but want the power to paint.
[Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (VII, 56)
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The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad
originals.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (no. 136)
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The picture that approaches sculpture nearest
Is the best picture.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Author: William Mason
Source: Fresnoy's Art of Painting
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I mix them with my brains, sir.
Author: John Opie ("The Cornish Wonder")
Source: answer when asked with what he mixed his colours
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Eloisa to Abelard (last line)
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Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 149)
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The fellow mixes blood with his colors.
Author: Guido Reni (Guido Reni of Rubens)
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.
Author: John Ruskin
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.
Author: John Ruskin
Source: The Two Paths (lect. I)
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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
Author: John Singer Sargent
Source: in Bentley and Esar's "Treasury of Humorous Quotations" (1951)
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