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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
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Joseph Joubert
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10 votes
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Oscar Wilde
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7 votes
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
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John Singer Sargent
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
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Miguel De Cervantes
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
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Pablo Picasso
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I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
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Henri De Toulouse Lautrec
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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Pierre Auguste Renoir
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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Honore De Balzac
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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Hamerton
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
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Georges Rouault
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Pablo Picasso
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Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.
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Simonides
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Francis Bacon
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43 votes
Sunlight is painting.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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