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Invite to Painting Quotes, the ultimate source for inspirational as well as thought-provoking quotes concerning painting. Right here you will certainly discover a collection of quotes from some of the world's most popular painters, from the Renaissance to the contemporary era. Whether you are searching for a quote to influence your own painting, or simply intend to appreciate the elegance of art, you will discover something here to appreciate. Explore our collection of quotes and find the ideal one to reveal your feelings regarding painting.
Small: Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour
Giotto di Bondone
"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"
Giotto di Bondone, Artist
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Small: Painting is just another way of keeping a diary
Pablo Picasso
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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Small: It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall its a painting, and if you can walk around it i
Tom Stoppard
"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
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Small: Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality
"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"
Salvador Dali, Artist
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Small: A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting
Abraham Maslow
"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting"
Abraham Maslow, Psychologist
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Small: My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one
Kathryn Bigelow
"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one"
Kathryn Bigelow, Director
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Small: You dont need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame
"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame"
Klaus Kinski, Actor
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Small: Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza
Robert Indiana
"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"
Robert Indiana, Artist
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Small: If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting
"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"
Peter Shaffer, Playwright
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Small: A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth
"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth"
John Singer Sargent, Artist
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Small: Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do"
Edgar Degas, Artist
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Small: Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course
George Bernard Shaw
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a de
Pablo Picasso
"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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Small: I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that po
Michael Graves
"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention"
Michael Graves, Architect
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Small: Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from
John Dyer
"I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing"
John Dyer, Artist
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Small: And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a pict
Robert Rauschenberg
"And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
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Small: There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that wa
Robert Rauschenberg
"There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
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Small: A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world
"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world"
Edmond De Goncourt, Writer
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Small: My painting carries with it the message of pain
Frida Kahlo
"My painting carries with it the message of pain"
Frida Kahlo, Painter
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Small: I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day h
"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays"
Anthony Quinn, Actor
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Small: Nothings sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months.
Jennifer Lawrence
"Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her"
Jennifer Lawrence, Actress
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Small: Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal
"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal"
E. O. Wilson, Scientist
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Small: You buy any book on color theory today, and its just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school paintin
John Kricfalusi
"You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind"
John Kricfalusi, Artist
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Small: Good painting is like good cooking it can be tasted, but not explained
"Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained"
Maurice de Vlaminck, Artist
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Small: On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon c
"On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting"
William Scott
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Small: I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from
"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion"
William Scott
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Small: Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible
"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible"
Balthus, Artist
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Small: Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-exa
"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle"
Balthus, Artist
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Small: He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplat
"He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods"
Kate Chopin, Author
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Small: As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and s
"As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic"
Jonathan Coe, Novelist
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Small: You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself
"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself"
Pierre Bonnard, Artist
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Small: If I hadnt started painting, I would have raised chickens
"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens"
Grandma Moses, Artist
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Small: Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, wh
"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"
Sergei Eisenstein, Director
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Small: The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of c
Voltaire
"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it"
Voltaire, Writer
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Small: I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confi
Winston Churchill
"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
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Small: It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting
Albert Camus
"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
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Small: Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting
Pablo Picasso
"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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Small: Painting is a blind mans profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself abou
Pablo Picasso
"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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