#painting

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

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To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#inadequacy-of-words #painting #power-of-words #self-expression #art

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

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The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. ↗

— O. Henry

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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. ↗

— Robert Henri

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Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. ↗

— Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn

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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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