#painting

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

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Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. ↗

— Rene Magritte

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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000) ↗

— Olivier Weber

#fiction #french-literature #literature #love #painting

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued. ↗

— Lee Krasner

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The substance of painting is light. ↗

— Andre Derain

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

— Robert Delaunay

#impressionism #light #painting

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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