#painting

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. ↗

— Ralph Allen

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The substance of painting is light. ↗

— Andre Derain

#painting #substance

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#impressionism #light #painting

I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I did before the age of seventy was of any value at all. At seventy-three I have at last caught every aspect of nature–birds, fish, animals, insects, trees, grasses, all. When I am eighty I shall have developed still further and I will really master the secrets of art at ninety. When I reach a hundred my work will be truly sublime and my final goal will be attained around the age of one hundred and ten, when every line and dot I draw will be imbued with life. - from Hokusai’s ‘The Art Crazy Old Man ↗

— Hokusai Katsushika

#drawing #painting #age

...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart. ↗

— Amy Tan

#painting #art

Language is much closer to film than painting is. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

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Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#came #having #history #hurt #knowing

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. ↗

— Lorenz Hart

#could #half #never #painters #paintings

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings. ↗

— Balthus

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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

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