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Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. ↗

— Pierre Loti

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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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This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It's worth pushing through that, working through the cliché to find out what made it a cliché in the first place. ↗

— Antony Sher

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The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter feels, Jesus of Nazareth did not walk around Galilee faceless. The icon of Jesus may not look like the man Jesus two thousand years ago, but it represents some *quality* of Jesus, or his mother, or his followers, and so becomes an open window through which we can be given a new glimpse of the love of God. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

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