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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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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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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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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As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.
Amrita Sher-Gil
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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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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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I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
Jonathan Winters
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I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
Jessalyn Gilsig