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"Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself." »William Baziotes
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"It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it." »Jeff Melvoin
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"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art." »Marc Chagall
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"The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame." »Gertrude Stein
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"painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." »Simonides
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"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through." »Jackson Pollock
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"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." »Sri da Avabhas
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"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts." »Blaise Pascal
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"painting is just another way of keeping a diary." »Pablo Picasso
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"We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. - from the Joy of painting" »Bob Ross
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"If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad." »George Bernard Shaw
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"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world." »Edmond de Concourt
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"painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings." »George Tooker
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"painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce
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"I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed." »Etty Hillesum
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"That's not painting, that's Paint-By-Numbers. That's therapy for the artistically challenged. That's what they prescribe for cretins in dayrooms." »Jeff Melvoin
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"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong." »Harriet
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"In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat." »Auguste Renoir
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"The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel." »Eduard Hanslick
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"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself." »Truman Capote
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"Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly." »Mao Zedong
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"I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'" »Igor Stravinsky
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"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice." »Oprah Winfrey
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"Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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