Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
Damien Hirst
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
Camilla Belle
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
Rachel Kushner
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
Quentin Blake
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
Paracelsus
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Pliny the Elder
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Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit.
Pablo Amaringo
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A cow couldn't find its calf in this room.
Addison Mizner
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The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
William Dobell
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Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
