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"No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder." »John Ruskin
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." »Commitment To Excellence
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"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world." »Samuel Johnson
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"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend." »John Singer Sargent
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." »Samuel Butler
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"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music." »Nikki Harris
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"A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen." »Paul Valery
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"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." »Pablo Picasso
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"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous." »Auguste Renoir
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"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things." »Leonardo Da Vinci
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"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is." »Henri Matisse
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"It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece." »Burton
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"A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day." »Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." »David Bailey
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." »David Bailey
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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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"The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago." »Dorothea Brande
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