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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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
Vincent Van Gogh
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We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.
Elizabeth Aston
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That air and harmony of shape express,Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.
Matthew Prior
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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.
Michael Arad
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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
