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• When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

  Fernando Botero

  Art, Moving, Conclusion

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• Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

  Blaise Pascal

  Eloquence

  "Pensées", XXIV. 88 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 219-220), 1922.

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• Painting is by nature a luminous language.

  Robert Delaunay

  Art, Language, Luminous

  Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay (1978). “The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay”, Viking Adult

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• Basically painting is total idiocy.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Idiocy

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• There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.

  Jenny Saville

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a shoe store, sell real estate, or what? I was really depressed by the whole thing, because I felt like a painter, yet I couldn't make paintings.

  Ralph Goings

  Jobs, Real, Shoes

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• I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Differences, Seeing

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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A painting that is well composed is half finished.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Half, Architecture

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• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Children, Years

  "The Drum Perspective". Book by Peter Erskine and ‎Rick Mattingly (p. 73), 1998.

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• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Eye, Hands

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• I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

  Howard Stern

  Atheist, Thinking, Rocks

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• I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Heart, Heaven, My Heart

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• Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

  George Tooker

  Life, Art, Inspire

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• When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Expressionism, Modern Art

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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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

  Eye, Drawing, Done

  Thomas Hood (1862). “the works of thomas hood”, p.361

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• I only feel, but want the power to paint.

  Juvenal

  Want, Paint, Feels

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.423

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• The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

  Zaha Hadid

  Art, Way, Architecture

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Joy, Excitement

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Real, Landscape, Assuming

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• When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Next, One Thing

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• Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

  Michele Cassou

  Tools

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.167, Penguin

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• Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Ordinary, Resurrection

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• Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

  Tiko Kerr

  People, Healthy, Happy Place

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• All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

  Caravaggio

  Life, Art, Nature

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