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Quotations by Subject
- Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
- Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)
- Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
- George Tooker
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
- The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
- Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
- It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
- Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
- John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
- A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
- I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
- Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
- Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)
- Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
- William Baziotes
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