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#painting

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If you hear a voice within you say „you cannot paint“, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.


Vincent Van Gogh


#self-doubt #doubt

She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.


Janet Flanner


#painting #suzanne-lenglen #tennis #love

Magnus? Magnus Bane?” “That would be me.” The man blocking the doorway was as tall and thin as a rail, his hair a crown of dense back spikes. Clary guessed from the curse of his sleepy eyes and the gold tone of his evenly tanned skin that he was part Asian. He wore jeans and a black shirt covered with dozens of metal buckles. His eyes were crusted with a raccoon mask of charcoal glitter, his lips painted a dark shade of blue. He raked a ring-laden hand through his spiked hair and regarded them thoughtfully. “Children of the Nephilim,” he said. “Well, well. I don’t recall inviting you. I must have been drunk.


Cassandra Clare


#painting

She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her wrist.


Amy Efaw


#emo #painting

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.


Aeschylus


#blow #blurred #comes #fair #glitter

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.


Balthus


#anguish #endless #great #painting #pleasure

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.


Balthus


#attempt #best #better #even #find

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.


Balthus


#emotions #order #painting #passage #possible

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.


Ansel Adams


#believe #everybody #paintings #people #photographs

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.


Balthus


#desire #extraordinary #feel #i #i always






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