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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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"You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you." »Edward Steichen
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"During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose
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"During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577
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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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"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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"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." »Sri da Avabhas
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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 The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Wit is the only wall between us and the dark." »Mark van Doren
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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!" »Peter de Jager
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"Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind." »Alfred Victor Vigny
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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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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes." »Harold B. Lee
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"You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut." »Sally Berger
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"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." »Gordon R. Dickson
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