Painting Quotes
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson
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'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
Banksy
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
Auguste Renoir
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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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When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
James Frey
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I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
Van Cliburn
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To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
Piet Mondrian
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
Yayoi Kusama
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
Wassily Kandinsky
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
Caio Fonseca
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Jean de la Bruyere
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
Otto Dix
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My music is more than me writing a flashy soul song. They're heartfelt songs about my family and true stories. I have also songs that aren't personal, but just painting a picture. I don't like being put under labels, but my music is going to continue to stay classic and timeless forever.
Leon Bridges
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In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.
Andy Warhol
