#painting

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. ↗

— O. Henry

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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. ↗

— Robert Henri

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Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. ↗

— Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn

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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones. ↗

— Arthur Rackham

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Art is a harmony parallel with nature ↗

— Paul Cézanne

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The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering it visible. The painter shows or allows the seeing of "something" that without him, without his intervention, would not be seen. He manifests through his work a possibility of seeing that would otherwise remain latent. In other words, painting is an art that reveals or unveils the world from an angle that the world itself does not present to us. Painting creates. It does not limit itself to imitation or reproduction. Any desire to confine painting within the limits of déjà vu would be a gross misunderstanding of the essence of what painting is. Painting allows us to see that which without it would never be seen. ↗

— Marcel Paquet

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Batman’s cape would make a great canvas for a cave painting.

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— Jarod Kintz

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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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