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When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing...


Hiroko Sakai


#artist #drinking #funny #humorous #night

If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from the police - you may have noticed a type of painting known as a triptych. A triptych has three panels, with something different painted on each of the panels. For instance, my friend Professor Reed made a triptych for me, and he painted fire on one panel, a typewriter on another, and the face of a beautiful, intelligent woman on the third. The triptych is entitled What Happened to Beatrice and I cannot look upon it without weeping. I am a writer, and not a painter, but if I were to try and paint a triptych entitled The Baudelaire Orphans' Miserable Experiences at Prufrock Prep, I would paint Mr. Remora on one panel, Mrs. Brass on another, and a box of staples on the third, and the results would make me so sad that between the Beatrice triptych and the Baudelaire triptych I would scarcely stop weeping all da


Lemony Snicket


#painting #triptych #weeping #art

Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.


Pierre Auguste-Renoir


#painting #art

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,


Ross Wetzsteon


#art #artist #barnett-newman #painting #art

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.


Wayne Thiebaud


#painter #painting #art

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!


Norman MacCaig


#books #even #far #hang #i

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.


Carlos Ruiz Zafón


#home #house #imprisoned #memories #paintings

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your throat As if you were never to be loved again If you lived in the old days you would enter a monastery You are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayer You make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter crackles The sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your life It's a painting hanging in a dark museum And sometimes you go and look at it close up


Guillaume Apollinaire


#city #crowd #laughing #laughter #love

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.


Salvador Dalí


#pictures #portrait #resemble #true-to-life #life

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.


Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


#nature #painting #art






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