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I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

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But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

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And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. ↗

— Francis Picabia

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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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