Paul Gauguin Quotes
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
Paul Gauguin
Quotes to Explore
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso
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Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
Caio Fonseca
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RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' now lost created such a sensation in Dresden
Otto Dix
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We are going to have perhaps a thousand years of non-representational painting.
Adolph Gottlieb
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A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.
Anu Garg
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My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.
Ellie Kemper
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Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.
Antonio Guterres
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What a happy woman I am living in a garden, with books, babies, birds, and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them! Yet my town acquaintances look upon it as imprisonment, and I don't know what besides, and would rend the air with their shrieks if condemned to such a life. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find my happiness so easily. I believe I should always be good if the sun always shone, and could enjoy myself very well in Siberia on a fine day. And what can life in town offer in the way of pleasure to equal the delight of any one of the calm evenings I have had this month sitting alone at the foot of the verandah steps, with the perfume of young larches all about, and the May moon hanging low over the beeches, and the beautiful silence made only more profound in its peace by the croaking of distant frogs and hooting of owls?
Elizabeth von Arnim
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One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.
Edwin Lefevre
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“Perhaps if she were to live with a homey type of family they could introduce her to “the right sort of people.”
Wallace Thurman
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We saw that radiation cannot suitably be pictured as particles when it is traveling through space. There is a corresponding property for electrons; these should not be pictured as waves so long as they are traveling through empty space.
James Jeans
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It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
Paul Gauguin
