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Quotations by Subject: Painting
(Related Subjects: Art, Photography)
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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
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George Tooker
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
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Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
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John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
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Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)
Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
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William Baziotes
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