| "Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself." »William Baziotes |
| "It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "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 |
| "painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." »Simonides |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through." »Jackson Pollock |
| "painting is just another way of keeping a diary." »Pablo Picasso |
| "Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts." »Blaise Pascal |
| "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." »Sri da Avabhas |
| "We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. - from the Joy of painting" »Bob Ross |
| "A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world." »Edmond de Concourt |
| "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings." »George Tooker |
| "The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes." »Harold B. Lee |
| "A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb |
| "You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut." »Sally Berger |
| "Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind." »Alfred Victor Vigny |
| "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." »Gordon R. Dickson |
| "painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong." »Harriet |
| "Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great wall of China between them!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger |
| "Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world." »Charles Hanson Towne |
| "Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon." »Martin Luther |
| "Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "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 |
| "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." »Michael Jordon |
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