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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
Painters and Painting
Leonardo Da Vinci

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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Painters and Painting
Joseph Joubert

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Painters and Painting
Oscar Wilde

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
Painters and Painting
John Singer Sargent

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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
Painters and Painting
Miguel De Cervantes

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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Painters and Painting
Vincent Van Gogh

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I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
Painters and Painting
Pablo Picasso

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I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
Painters and Painting
Henri De Toulouse Lautrec

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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
Painters and Painting
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.
Painters and Painting
Hamerton

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Painters and Painting
Vincent Van Gogh

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Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Painters and Painting
Georges Rouault

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Painters and Painting
Pablo Picasso

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Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.
Painters and Painting
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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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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun