#painting

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance. ↗

— Martin Mull

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I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#made #make #money #movie #never

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. ↗

— Brad Holland

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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

#painting #art

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

#painting #art

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

#art #creativity #literature #music #painting