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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Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions.
April Gornik
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I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
Pablo Picasso
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The art of seeing Nature, or in other words, the art of using Models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.
Joshua Reynolds
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
Oscar Wilde
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman
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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
