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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! ↗

— Robert Musil

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When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

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The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model") ↗

— Hume Nisbet

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Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way. ↗

— Carol Brearley

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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

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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

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